In recent years, the flying height of HDD slider is significantly decreased to maximize the recording density. It has become important to know the dynamic characteristics of HDD slider air bearing in various aspects. In this paper, we investigate the ...
In recent years, the flying height of HDD slider is significantly decreased to maximize the recording density. It has become important to know the dynamic characteristics of HDD slider air bearing in various aspects. In this paper, we investigate the dynamic behavior of the sllder air beanng by numerical simulation. The simulator used in this study employs the factored implicit finite difference scheme to solve the Reynolds equation and uses a suitable slip model at the wall condition to account for a large Knudsen number.
We apply randomly generated disk vibration and surface profile to the dynamic siumulator and get the response of the slider air bearing caused by these random excitation. There are three slider air bearing modes which are close to pitch, roll and vertical displacement modes. However, these three mode are coupled together and not easy to figure out their own effects. Therefore, we use a modal analysis technique to decouple each modes and get the mode shapes. We use circle fitting method based on the single degree of freedom.