Numerical Investigation of tri-pad sliders and comparison to other slider designs

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Volumn 207, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 107-111

  Stenberg, Håvard ^a   Wahl, Michael H ^a,b   Talke, Frank E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Phase Metrics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Slider designs

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SIMULATORS;

TRI-PAD SLIDERS;

MECHANISMS;

DESIGN; SLIDEWAYS;

EID: 0031171050     PISSN: 00431648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0043-1648(96)07465-0     Document Type: Article

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