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RISContact Take-Off Characteristics of Proximity Recording Air Bearing Sliders in Magnetic Hard Disk Drives
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: A partial contact air bearing model and Archard’s wear law are used to investigate the air bearing and wear characteristics of proximity recording sliders during a take-off process. The air ...
Ramp-Load Dynamics of Proximity Recording Air Bearing Sliders in Magnetic Hard Disk Drive
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: The revival of dynamic load/unload (L/UL) technology forces us to rethink the air bearing design philosophy, which has traditionally been established for contact start/stop applications. Reliably ...
Design and Analysis of Slider’s Landing Pads for Fast Take-Off Performance in Magnetic Hard Disk Drives
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: Exponential growth in both capacity and performance has been exhausting a lot of existing technologies in magnetic hard disk drive industry, one of them being laser zone texturing. Maintaining ...
Wear Characteristics of Padded Air Bearing Sliders During a Contact Take-Off Process
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: The pressing and challenging demand for resolving the stiction/glide-height conflict, driven by today’s ever decreasing head/disk spacing, forces us to constantly search for new technologies. One ...
Dynamic Stability and Spacing Modulation of Sub-25 nm Fly Height Sliders
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
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 ...
Solution of the Rarefied Gas Lubrication Equation Using an Additive Correction Based Multigrid Control Volume Method
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: The ever shortening product cycle for magnetic recording disk drives demands a fast and accurate numerical prediction of the slider’s flying characteristics during the design stage. A computationally ...
Effects of Laser Textured Disk Surfaces on a Slider’s Flying Characteristics
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: Recently, laser texturing has captured the attention of head/media interface engineers in the hard disk drive industry because it provides precision in the landing zone placement while eliminating ...
Air Bearing Dynamics of Sub-Ambient Pressure Sliders During Dynamic Unload
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: The increasing effort to use sub-ambient pressure air bearing sliders for dynamic load/unload applications in magnetic hard disk drives requires desirable air bearing characteristics during the ...
Algorithms for Generating Air-Void Structures of Idealized Asphalt Mixture Based on Three-Dimensional Discrete-Element Method
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: The air-void structure of an asphalt mixture is a very important feature because it significantly impacts the strength and modulus of the material. Consequently, in-depth research into an air-void structure for quantification ...
Optimization of Proximity Recording Air Bearing Sliders in Magnetic Hard Disk Drives
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Abstract: The object of this paper will be to optimize the contact stiffness (CS) of an existing proximity recording air bearing surface (ABS). The CS is a measure of the slider’s increase in contact ...