Effect of environment humidity and temperature on stationary and transient flying responses of air bearing slider

Tribology International

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1125-1131

  Hua, Wei ^a   Zhou, Weidong ^a   Liu, Bo ^a   Yu, Shengkai ^a   Wong, Chee How ^b  

^a DATA STORAGE INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Air bearing slider; Hard disk drive; Humidity and temperature; Simulations

Indexed keywords

AIR BEARING; AIR BEARING SLIDER; AIR BEARING SLIDERS; ENVIRONMENT TEMPERATURE; FLYING HEIGHTS; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; HARD DISK DRIVE; HIGH HUMIDITY; HUMIDITY AND TEMPERATURE; INTERMOLECULAR FORCES; RESEARCH PAPERS; SIMULATIONS; SLIDER DESIGN; THERMAL PROTRUSION; VIBRATION FREQUENCY;

BEARINGS (STRUCTURAL); CHEMICAL BONDS; DROPS; EVAPORATIVE COOLING SYSTEMS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; HARD DISK STORAGE; RESEARCH;

MOISTURE;

EID: 67349198604     PISSN: 0301679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.triboint.2008.09.010     Document Type: Article

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