Abstract: Thermal fly-height control sliders are widely used in current hard disk drives to control and maintain subnanometer level clearance between the read-write head and the disk. The peculiar dynamics ...

Abstract: Parametric instabilities of in-plane bending vibrations of a rotating ring coupled to multiple, discrete, rotating, time-varying stiffness spring-sets of general geometric description are investigated ...

Abstract: Parametric excitation of a rotating ring subject to moving time-varying stiffnesses has previously been investigated and given as closed-form expressions in the system parameters. These conditions ...