Abstract: A contact mechanics (CM) based model of a fixed-length rigid cylinder impacting a homogeneous elastic-plastic homogeneous body was developed and includes an improved method of estimating the ...

Abstract: Scratch-related magnetic signal degradation can occur during magnetic storage hard disk drive operations when the read-write heads contact the spinning multilayer disks. To investigate this phenomenon, ...

Abstract: As the use of hard disk drives in mobile applications increases, the susceptibility of disk damage due to high velocity slider-disk impact presents a serious challenge. The impact could result ...

Abstract: With the increased use of hard disk drives (HDDs) in mobile and consumer applications combined with the requirement of higher areal density, there is enhanced focus on reducing head disk ...