Air film dynamics for micro-textured flying head slider bearings in magnetic hard disk drives

Journal of Tribology

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 568-574

  Tagawa, Norio ^a   Bogy, David B ^a  

^a KANSAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEARINGS (MACHINE PARTS); DAMPING; DRIVES; HARD DISK STORAGE; STIFFNESS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TEXTURES;

AIR FILMS;

TRIBOLOGY;

AIR BEARING; DISK DRIVE; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC DISC; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; SLIDING BEARING;

EID: 0036641097     PISSN: 07424787     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1456084     Document Type: Article

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