The head/tape interface: a critical review and recent results

Tribology Transactions

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 306-313

  Baugh, E ^a   Talke, F E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetic data storage systems tribology

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GREEN'S FUNCTION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); INTERFEROMETRY; LUBRICATION; MAGNETIC HEADS; MAGNETIC TAPE STORAGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAGNETIC TAPE; PICKUPS; TRIBOLOGY;

ASPERITY COMPLIANCE CURVE; CONTACT PRESSURE; MONOCHROMATIC INTERFEROMETRY; MULTIWAVELENGTH INTERFEROMETRY;

TRIBOLOGY; MAGNETIC TAPE STORAGE;

EXPERIMENTAL TEST; MODELING; SIZE EFFECT; SPACING; THEORETICAL STUDY;

HEAD/TAPE INTERFACE; MAGNETIC TAPES; TRIBOLOGY;

EID: 0030111530     PISSN: 10402004     EISSN: 1547397X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10402009608983532     Document Type: Article

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