Abstract: The plane-strain and generalized plane stress problems of two materially dissimilar orthogonal elastic wedges, which are bonded together on one of their faces while arbitrary normal and shearing ...

Abstract: In a recent paper, Sternberg and Knowles characterized implicitly the solution of a relaxed Saint-Venant flexure problem that is associated with the absolute minimum of the total strain energy ...

Abstract: Designing a reliable sub-25 nm spacing head/disk interface for today’s magnetic hard disk drives demands a greater dynamic stability and a smaller spacing modulation. An air bearing dynamic ...

Abstract: This paper presents a method for reducing particle contamination on sliders. A model for simulating particle movement in an air bearing is developed and solved numerically. Through the simulation, ...

Abstract: The mechanical spacing between the slider and the disk has to be reduced to less than 5 nm in order to achieve an areal density of 1Tbit∕in2. Certain physical phenomena, such as those that ...

Abstract: Prediction of the steady state flying height and attitude of air-bearing sliders in hard disk drives via simulations is the basis of their design process. Over the past few years air-bearing ...

Abstract: This paper describes the air film dynamics for micro-textured flying head slider bearings in magnetic hard disk drives and it discusses their ability to increase the air film damping. In order ...

Abstract: This paper addresses the effects of pitch static attitude (PSA) and roll static attitude (RSA) on air bearing slider steady performance, especially for ultralow flying height sliders. We performed ...

Abstract: Intermolecular and surface forces contribute significantly to the total forces acting on air bearing sliders for flying heights below 5 nm. Their contributions to the total force increase sharply ...