Analysis of Bouncing Vibrations of a 2-DOF Tripad Contact Slider Model With Air Bearing Pads Over a Harmonic Wavy Disk Surface

1999 ◽  
Vol 121 (4) ◽  
pp. 939-947 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyosuke Ono ◽  
Kan Takahashi

In this study, the authors numerically analyzed the bouncing vibrations of a two-degree-of-freedom (2-DOF) model of a tripad contact slider with air bearing pads over a harmonic wavy disk surface. The general features of bouncing vibrations were elucidated in regard to the modal characteristics of a 2-DOF vibration system and design parameters such as contact stiffness, contact damping, air hearing stiffness, the rear to front air bearing stiffness ratio, static contact force and the coefficient of friction. The design of a contact slider was discussed in terms of tracking ability and wear durability. In addition, two sample designs of a perfect contact slider with sufficient wear durability were also presented.

2000 ◽  
Vol 123 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kohei Iida ◽  
Kyosuke Ono

We numerically analyzed the bouncing vibrations of a two-degree-of-freedom (2-DOF) model of a tri-pad contact slider with air bearing pads over a random wavy surface and manifested the design conditions of a contact slider. The effects of the design parameters such as air bearing stiffness, contact damping ratio, the coefficient of friction, and the characteristics of the disk surface waviness on dynamic behavior and the contact sliding ability of the slider have been investigated. As a result, we found that friction force decreases the contact sliding ability at the boundary of the intermittent and continuous contact sliding. We also found that the distance between the rear air bearing center and the contact pad has a significant effect on the contact sliding ability. If the contact pad is apart from the rear air bearing center, the contact pad tends to separate from the disk. Based on this analytical study, we have proposed two design concepts: (1) Make the distance between the rear air bearing center and the contact pad as small as possible; in this case, the larger the rear air bearing stiffness results are, the better the contact ability is; (2) If some distance between the rear air bearing center and the contact pad is inevitable, then make the rear air bearing stiffness much smaller than the contact stiffness.


1999 ◽  
Vol 121 (3) ◽  
pp. 587-595 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyosuke Ono ◽  
Kan Takahashi ◽  
Kohei Iida

This study is a computational analysis of the bouncing vibration of a point contact slider model over computer generated random disk surfaces and the design conditions of slider to disk interface parameters necessary for contact recording. The Gaussian random surface of a disk with various standard deviations and frequency characteristics is generated by using a modified midpoint displacement algorithm. From the calculated results of bouncing vibration of a slider for various parameter values, it was found that the decrease in contact stiffness and increase in slider load can significantly reduce the bouncing vibration as well as the increase in contact damping and the smoothness of the surface. It was also found that the bouncing vibration spectrum of a contact slider over a simulated disk surface agreed closely with the experimental results presented in a previous study by the authors. The maximum and rms values of the spacing and the contact force were examined for various design parameters. The design conditions of the contact pad to the disk interface were discussed in terms of tracking ability and wear durability for slider loads of 0.5 mN and 5 mN.


Author(s):  
Kyosuke Ono ◽  
Masami Yamane

We proposed a design method of a flying head slider that can suppress the bouncing vibration in a near-contact regime, based on parametric study using an improved slider and contact models. At first, we numerically calculated the characteristics of contact force and adhesive force between air bearing pad and disk surface under the current small roughness conditions and found that the contact characteristics can be modeled by constant contact stiffness, a constant adhesion force and the separations of beginning and end of contact. Next we numerically computed the slider dynamics of a 2-DOF slider model by using these contact characteristics and nonlinear air-bearing stiffness. As a result, we could get the self-excited bouncing vibration whose general characteristics are more similar to the experimented results compared to our previous study. Parametric study shows that the frictional coefficient, attractive force and contact stiffness should be decreased and front and rear air-bearing stiffness and ratio of rear to front air-bearing stiffness should be increased in order to realize a stable flying slider in a smallest possible spacing. Moreover, we elucidated the effect of micro-waviness on the self-excited vibration of the slider.


1999 ◽  
Vol 121 (3) ◽  
pp. 596-603 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyosuke Ono ◽  
Kohei lida ◽  
Kan Takahashi

The general characteristics of the bouncing vibrations of a IDOF contact slider model over the surface of a harmonic wavy disk were studied both by computer simulation and theoretical analysis. The necessary design conditions for a contact slider and the surface of a disk were discussed in terms of perfect contact sliding and wear durability. It was found that the bouncing vibrations change with the amount of waviness amplitude A(fr) at the contact resonant frequency fr(=(1/2π)kc/m) relative to static penetration depth δ, or fr relative to limiting critical frequency fcl, above which the downward acceleration of the surface of a disk is larger than that of a slider due to slider load. When the contact stiffness is large enough so that δ < A(fr) (fcl < fr), the slider bounces with a large amplitude similar to an elastic impact in a wide frequency range. When the contact stiffness is small enough so that δ > A(fr) (fcl > fr), bouncing vibrations occur near the contact resonance, similar to the resonance of a nonlinear soft spring system. Here, the bouncing vibration can be completely eliminatedby increasing the contact damping ratio and decreasing the slider mass and the waviness amplitude.


1995 ◽  
Vol 117 (1) ◽  
pp. 124-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyosuke Ono ◽  
Hiroshi Yamamura ◽  
Takaaki Mizokoshi

This paper presents a new theoretical approach to the dynamic contact behavior and tracking characteristics of a contact slider that is one of the candidates of head design for future high density magnetic recording disk storages. A slider and its suspension are modeled as a single-degree-of-freedom vibration system. The disk surface is assumed to have a harmonic wavy roughness with linear contact stiffness and damping. From the computer simulation of the time history of the slider motion after dropping from the initial height of 10 nm, it is found that the contact vibration of the slider can attenuate and finally track on the wavy disk surface in a low waviness frequency range. As the waviness frequency increases, however, the slider cannot stay on the disk surface and comes to exhibit a variety of contact vibrations, such as sub- and super-harmonic resonance responses and finally comes to exhibit non-periodic vibration. It is also found that, among design parameters, the slider load to mass ratio and contact damping can greatly increase the surface waviness frequency and amplitude for which the stable tracking of a contact slider is possible.


Author(s):  
Du Chen ◽  
David D. Bogy

A nonlinear dynamic model is developed to analyze the bouncing vibration of a partial contact air bearing slider, which is designed for the areal recording density in hard disk drives of 1 Tbit/in2 or even higher. In this model the air bearing with contact is modeled using the generalized Reynolds equation modified with the Fukui-Kaneko slip correction and a new second order slip correction for the contact situation [1]. The adhesion, contact and friction between the slider and the disk are also considered in the model. It is found that the disk surface roughness, which moves into the head disk interface (HDI) as the disk rotates, excites the bouncing vibrations of the partial contact slider. The frequency spectra of the slider’s bouncing vibration have high frequency components that correspond to the slider-disk contact.


Author(s):  
Vineet Gupta ◽  
David B. Bogy

In this paper we present a theoretical investigation of the stability and the dynamics of the non-linear behavior of a slider at very low head media spacing. A single DOF head disk interface (HDI) model, with constant air bearing stiffness and damping has been used to study the effect of disk waviness on the nonlinear slider dynamics in the presence of intermolecular and electrostatic forces. A variational approach based on the principle of least action was used to derive the equations of motion of the slider. Further, a stability criteria was derived that helped to better understand the instabilities that appear in slider when the slider is flying in close proximity to the disk surface. Due to extremely nonlinear nature of the interaction between the slider and the disk, we observed some strange features of the motion of the slider. In particular the effects of the nonlinear interaction force, air bearing stiffness and damping on the instabilities of the periodic motions of the slider are discussed in detail. We found that the branch associated to the disk waviness frequencies larger than the resonance frequency is always stable and the branch associated to the disk waviness frequencies smaller than the resonance frequency exhibits two stable domains and one unstable domain. This analysis was further extended to include the nonlinear nature of air bearing stiffness and damping as well as contact at the HDI.


2002 ◽  
Vol 125 (1) ◽  
pp. 152-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masami Yamane ◽  
Kyosuke Ono ◽  
Kohei Iida

This paper describes optimum air-bearing design of a tri-pad slider in terms of tracking ability to micro-waviness based on theoretical analysis of the two-degree-of-freedom slider model and the distributed and concentrated air-bearing stiffness model. Although a short tri-pad type slider was introduced through the load/unload technique, we point out that this type of slider is superior to the traditional rail type slider in terms of tracking ability to micro-waviness. More importantly, the distance between head-gap position and the rear air-bearing center should be made as small as possible. The spacing variation due to lower mode resonance can be eliminated if the positions of front and rear air-bearing centers are located at the center of percussion. The resonance amplitude of the higher order mode in spacing variation can be reduced if the length of the rear air-bearing pad is designed to be 1.2∼1.3 times the wavelength of the higher mode resonance frequency. Since the momental stiffness of the front air-bearing prevents the head-gap from tracking micro-waviness, the front air-bearing length should be made short or the ratio of rear to front air-bearing stiffness should be made large. If the resonance amplitude of the lower mode must be decreased, the front air-bearing length should be designed to be 1.2∼1.3 times the wavelength of the lower mode resonance frequency.


2002 ◽  
Vol 124 (3) ◽  
pp. 600-606 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kohei Iida ◽  
Kyosuke Ono ◽  
Masami Yamane

We numerically investigated the tracking ability, the dynamic contact and friction forces of a 2-DOF model of a tripad slider over a random wavy disk surface with 1 nm rms value in the near-contact regime. The air bearing was modeled as a lumped spring and dashpot in order to consider a general design methodology of the flying slider in the near-contact regime. The nominal flying height was changed from the contact regime to the near-contact regime. We studied the effects of the front and rear air bearing stiffnesses, the nominal flying height and the friction coefficient on the tracking ability and contact force. As a result, we found that the spacing variation is caused not only by the slider dynamics but also by the micro-waviness of the disk surface and the distance of the contact pad (head-gap) position from the rear air bearing center. We also derived the closed form frequency response functions of the spacing variation to the disk surface waviness. The approximation agreed with the numerical simulation. The effect of the friction coefficient on the tracking ability can be neglected when the flying height is more than 1 nm.


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