... parameters. The impact model was validated using a plane strain finite element model by comparing the maximum contact depth, residual depth, and coefficient of restitution from the finite element model results. 18 11 2009 30 07 2010 01 10 2010 01 10 2010 disc drives elasticity...

... requirements. data storage high Knudsen number rough surface air bearing interface lubrication equation disc drives Knudsen flow lubrication Poiseuille flow surface roughness 16 06 2009 11 01 2010 24 03 2010 24 03 2010 2010 American Society of Mechanical...

... values of each head needs to be applied. 19 07 2009 08 01 2010 24 03 2010 24 03 2010 compensation disc drives hard discs flying clearance thermomechanical actuation thermal flying height control (TFC) head-disk interface (HDI) pole tip protrusion...

...-4787 , 129 , pp. 246 – 255 . 10.1115/1.2464131 03 09 2008 01 10 2009 10 12 2009 10 12 2009 adhesion disc drives discs (structures) elasticity friction hard discs slip springs (mechanical) surface roughness vibrations nanotribology head disk interface...

... bearing fly height flying attitude simulation finite element SUPG upwinding coupled system disc drives hard discs inverse problems mesh generation 05 10 2006 01 06 2008 15 06 2009 Force error for Slider 1 forward problem Converged pressure profile...

... in lubricant pickup on the slider are critical for head-disk interface (HDI) reliability, and hence it is important to study disk-to-head lubricant transfer and its dependence on various parameters. hard disk tribology reliability head-disk interface ABS design lubricant disc drives hard...

... , “ Three-Dimensional Motion of Sliders Contacting Media ,” ASME J. Tribol. 0742-4787 10.1115/1.2194914 , 128 ( 3 ), pp. 525 – 533 . 30 09 2007 31 08 2008 03 03 2009 disc drives elastic constants electromagnetic actuators friction hard discs magnetic heads mechanical...

... and their customers. PMR (perpendicular magnetic recording) HDD magnetostriction scratch head-disk interface (HDI) atomic force microscopy disc drives hard discs indentation magnetic force microscopy mechanical stability perpendicular magnetic recording transmission electron microscopy...

... 16 08 2008 26 11 2008 disc drives finite element analysis hard discs lubrication mechanical contact load/unload hard disk drive air slider multiple flying height states numerical continuation method dynamic analysis In a load/unload (L/UL) hard disk drive (HDD...

... 11 07 2008 26 11 2008 computational fluid dynamics disc drives hard discs magnetic heads magnetic recording microchannel flow Monte Carlo methods rarefied fluid dynamics Magnetic recording has become the main technology for the storage of digital data...

..., several ABS designs are evaluated by comparing their TMA efficiencies. 01 10 2007 06 06 2008 05 08 2008 actuators disc drives hard discs mechanical contact pressure transducers thermomechanical actuation efficiency air bearing pressure force ABS design...

.... 3301 – 3304 . 29 08 2007 07 12 2007 03 03 2008 atomic force microscopy disc drives hard discs intermolecular forces thermal actuation adhesion head-disk interface (HDI) head-media spacing (HMS) pole tip protrusion In order to meet the demands of higher...

... to agree with the changes in FH measured by experiment. Finally, we apply the model to analyze the FH sensitivity to temperature changes in a humid condition. hard disk drive air bearing flying height pressure humidity temperature disc drives hard discs humidity machine bearings...

... of air entrained between the ABS and the spinning disk. fluid bearing air bearing contamination hard disk drive particle flow disc drives flow hard discs surface contamination 04 05 2006 22 09 2007 06 12 2007 2008 American Society of Mechanical Engineers ...

... a greater flying height loss. 07 05 2006 11 06 2007 disc drives hard discs mechanical contact discrete track medium air bearing slider head-disk interface flying height Ishida , T. , Morita , O. , Noda , M. , Seko , S. , Tanaka , S. , and Ishioka...

... the particle and the disk could lead to permanent loss of data. In addition, we performed investigations to study the impact of air bearing design features, load/unload mechanism, and particle number density on the head disk interface. 24 04 2006 20 04 2007 data recording disc drives...

... metal foil disk single-sided recording air-bearing interface shock resistance hard discs disc drives floppy discs cost reduction mechanical contact 24 04 2006 19 03 2007 2007 American Society of Mechanical Engineers ...

... the steady-state values, and there is a trade-off between increasing the actuation bandwidth and decreasing the power consumption. hard discs disc drives mechanical contact finite element analysis iterative methods heat transfer machine bearings active slider air-bearing surface (ABS) flying...

... performance. magnetic storage surface roughness preferential texturing head-disk interfaces magnetic heads disc drives hard discs mechanical contact Gaussian processes curve fitting surface roughness 21 05 2006 26 01 2007 2007 American Society of Mechanical...

... should have a single unified explanation for experimental results or trends obtained from previous studies as well as our study. 07 04 2006 10 01 2007 lubricants disc drives hard discs sliding friction mechanical stability surface roughness design engineering hard disk...