Slider air bearing designs for load/unload applications

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 35, Issue 2 PART 1, 1999, Pages 746-751

  Zeng, Qing Hua ^a,b   Bogy, David B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

Author keywords

Air bearing design; Air bearing slider; Load unload; Numerical simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001211190     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.750639     Document Type: Article

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