Nano-asperity contact analysis and surface optimization for magnetic head slider/disk contact

Wear

Volumn 202, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 83-98

  Poon, Chin Y ^a   Bhushan, Bharat ^a  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Asperity contact; Head disk interface; Numerical models; Sampling resolution; Stiction; Surface roughness

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE; MAGNETIC HEADS; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; SAMPLING; STICTION; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACES;

ASPERITY CONTACT; CONTACT ANALYSIS; CONTACT AREA; CONTACT PRESSURE; SKEWNESS; STICTION MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL CONTACT MODEL;

INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

CONTACT; MAGNETIC RECORDING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 0030430860     PISSN: 00431648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0043-1648(95)06902-X     Document Type: Article

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