Air-bearing shear force in the head-disk interface of hard disk

Tribology Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 121-125

  Liu, Nan ^a   Bogy, David B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Air bearings; HDD reliability; Head disk interface; Shear force

Indexed keywords

AIR BEARING; AIR BEARINGS; AIR MOLECULES; ANALYTICAL FORMULAS; DOMINANT FACTOR; DRIVE RELIABILITY; FIRST-ORDER; HARD DISK DRIVE; HARD DISKS; HARD-SPHERE MODELS; HDD RELIABILITY; HEAD-DISK INTERFACE; LUBRICANT LAYERS; RAREFIED GAS; SHEAR FORCE; SLIP THEORY;

BEARINGS (STRUCTURAL); BOLTZMANN EQUATION; DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); DRIVES; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; HARD DISK STORAGE; NONVOLATILE STORAGE; RELIABILITY;

PHASE INTERFACES;

EID: 67650076867     PISSN: 10238883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11249-009-9440-8     Document Type: Article

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