An asperity contact model for the slider air bearing

Journal of Tribology

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 436-443

  Huang, Weidong ^a,b   Bogy, David B ^b   Honchi, Masayuki ^c  

^a IBM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Air bearings; Surface roughness effect

Indexed keywords

AIR LUBRICATION; BEARINGS (MACHINE PARTS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ASPERITY CONTACT PROBLEM; SLIDER AIR BEARING;

TRIBOLOGY;

CONTACT; LUBRICATION; MODEL; SLIDING BEARING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 0034174338     PISSN: 07424787     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.555379     Document Type: Article

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