Identification of slider/disk contacts using the energy of the acoustic emission signal

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 34, Issue 4 PART 1, 1998, Pages 1819-1821

  McMillan, Thomas C ^a,b   Talke, Frank E ^a   Harrison, Joshua C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic emission energy; Subambient pressure tri pad slider; Tri pad slider

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; ACOUSTIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

SIDE RAILS; SLIDER/DISK CONTACTS;

HARD DISK STORAGE;

EID: 0032118919     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.706717     Document Type: Article

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