Effects of certain design parameters on load/unload performance

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 36, Issue 1 PART 1, 2000, Pages 140-147

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Air bearing slider; Disk rpm; Dynamic load unload; Numerical simulation; Ramp profile

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); MAGNETIC RECORDING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

AIR BEARING SLIDER; DISK RPM; DYNAMIC LOAD UNLOAD; GREENWOOD-WILLIAMSON METHOD; SLIDER DISK CONTACT;

MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE;

EID: 0033898663     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.824439     Document Type: Article

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