Shock Modeling of the Head-Media Interface in an Operational Hard Disk Drive

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 39, Issue 5 II, 2003, Pages 2429-2431

  Jayson, Eric M ^a   Smith, Paul W ^b   Talke, Frank E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hard disk drive (HDD); Head disk interface; Reynolds equation; Shock response

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTOHYDRODYNAMIC LUBRICATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HARD DISK STORAGE; INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

REYNOLDS EQUATION;

MAGNETIC HEADS;

EID: 0141988563     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2003.816427     Document Type: Article

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