Failure analysis of laser-textured surfaces

2000 ◽  
Vol 214 (5) ◽  
pp. 471-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Chilamakuri ◽  
X Zhao ◽  
B Bhushan
Keyword(s):  
Plastic Deformation ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Disk Drives ◽  
Critical Number ◽  
Textured Surfaces ◽  
Tribological Behaviour ◽  
Magnetic Disk ◽  
Size And Shape ◽  
Ultrahigh Density ◽  
Theoretical Results

Friction/stiction behaviour of ultrahigh-density magnetic disk drives can be controlled by controlling the size and shape of the laser bumps. Tribological behaviour of laser-textured disk surfaces depends on the size and shape of the laser bumps, bump density and operating conditions. In this study, theoretical and experimental analyses have been carried out on nine different laser-textured disk surfaces. Stiction and friction experiments have been carried out on sombrero, V-type and W-type laser-textured disks and these results are compared with theoretical results. A good correlation is obtained between experimental and theoretical results. The effect of laser bump uniformity on critical number of bumps required to prevent plastic deformation and stiction has also been studied.

scholarly journals The plastic deformation of iron and the formation of Neumann lines

1925 ◽  
Vol 108 (745) ◽  
pp. 231-231
Keyword(s):  
Plastic Deformation ◽  
Pure Iron ◽  
Crystal Surfaces ◽  
Size And Shape ◽  
Slip Bands ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Moderate Rate ◽  
Rapid Deformation

The object of the investigation described in the present paper was to ascertain the manner in which wide variations in speed affect the mechanism of deformation in plastic metals. Iron was selected as the first metal for experiment, mainly because it is known that rapid deformation produced by shock is accompanied in this metal by special features, known as Neumann lines or lamellæ. When a piece of nearly pure iron, of suitable size and shape, with one face polished and etched, is subsequently subjected to plastic deformation at a moderate rate, the crystal surfaces, when examined under the microscope after deformation, show the well-known appearance of slip bands (1). The present experiments were undertaken in the first instance to ascertain whether the character, number and appearance of such slip bands would be appreciably affected by varying the rate of deformation over a wide range. For the sake of convenience, deformation by compression has been employed, the metal being used in the form of small rectangular prisms, measuring in some instances 0.44 inch by 0.44 inch in section by 0.7 inch in height.

Influence of texturing parameters and contact conditions on tribological behaviour of laser textured surfaces

Meccanica ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 567-575 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. M. Vilhena ◽  
B. Podgornik ◽  
J. Vižintin ◽  
J. Možina
Keyword(s):  
Textured Surfaces ◽  
Tribological Behaviour ◽  
Contact Conditions

scholarly journals Energy-Dissipation Limits in Variance-Based Computing

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (02) ◽  
pp. 1850013
Author(s):  
Sri Harsha Kondapalli ◽  
Xuan Zhang ◽  
Shantanu chakrabartty
Keyword(s):  
Energy Dissipation ◽  
Thermal Noise ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
Energy Scavenging ◽  
Logic Device ◽  
Additional Energy ◽  
Fundamental Limits ◽  
Bit Flip ◽  
Theoretical Results

Variance-based logic (VBL) uses the fluctuations or the variance in the state of a particle or a physical quantity to represent different logic levels. In this paper, we show that compared to the traditional bi-stable logic representation, the variance-based representation can theoretically achieve a superior performance trade-off (in terms of energy dissipation and information capacity) when operating at fundamental limits imposed by thermal noise. We show that, in addition to the universal KT ln(1/[Formula: see text]) energy dissipation required for a single bit flip, a bi-stable logic device needs to dissipate at least 4.35[Formula: see text]KT/bit of energy, whereas under similar operating conditions, a VBL device reduces the additional energy dissipation requirements down to sub-KT/bit. These theoretical results are generally enough to be applicable to different instantiations and variants of VBL ranging from digital processors based on energy-scavenging or to processors based on the emerging valleytronic devices.

scholarly journals On Design and Tribological Behaviour of Laser Textured Surfaces

Procedia CIRP ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 60 ◽  
pp. 20-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Bhaduri ◽  
A. Batal ◽  
S.S. Dimov ◽  
Z. Zhang ◽  
H. Dong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Textured Surfaces ◽  
Tribological Behaviour

A Means of Generating Polyethylene Wear Particles With Desired Size and Shape for Biological Studies of Osteolysis

Volume 1 ◽  
2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohsen Mosleh ◽  
Vijay T. John
Keyword(s):  
Wear Debris ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Biological Study ◽  
Wear Particles ◽  
Textured Surfaces ◽  
Surface Textures ◽  
Size And Shape ◽  
Uhmwpe Wear ◽  
Biological Studies ◽  
Uhmwpe Wear Particles

Metallic and ceramic counterfaces with artificial surface textures were rubbed against ultra high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) pins in water-lubricated wear tests and the characteristics of wear debris were studied. Two types of surface textures were utilized. In the first type, an array of wedge shaped features was created on silicon wafers by microfabrication. It was found that the mean size of UHMWPE wear particles strongly depended on the length of the cutting edge of the wedge. For instance, for wedges with a cutting edge length of 55 μm, 15 μm, and 7 μm, it was found that more than 75% of wear particles had a mean length of 30–60 μm, 6–15 μm, and 4–10 μm, respectively. In the second type of textured surfaces, unidirectional patterns were created on the stainless steel discs. These unidirectional patterns consisted of long, parallel edges and grooves and were created by abrading the discs by different grits of sand papers. The length of the majority of unidirectional edges was found to be approximately equal to the dominant size of elongated wear debris. The narrowly distributed wear debris produced in this investigation can be used in the biological study of the effects of size and shape of UHMWPE wear particles in total joint replacements on osteolysis.

Depletion of Moleculary Thin Lubricant Under Flying Head in Hard Disk Drives

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenji Yanagisawa ◽  
Youichi Kawakubo ◽  
Masato Yoshino
Keyword(s):  
Thin Film ◽  
Hard Disk Drives ◽  
Hard Disk ◽  
Lubricant Film ◽  
Simulation Program ◽  
Disk Drives ◽  
Lubricant Thickness ◽  
Magnetic Disk ◽  
Lubricant Depletion ◽  
Lubricant Films

In Hard Disk Drives, lubricants are very important materials to reduce head and disk wear. Therefore, it is necessary to know the lubricant depletion under flying heads. Lubricant depletion due to flying heads has been studied experimentally. We developed simulation program to calculate numerically the change in lubricant thickness under a flying head on a thin-film magnetic disk from 10nm thick lubricant film. In recent HDDs, the lubricants thickness has become molecularly thin and polar lubricants have been used. In this paper, we took account of thickness-dependent lubricants diffusion and viscosity in our simulations to calculate a 1.2 nm thick polar lubricant film used in recent HDDs. The simulated results considering the thickness-dependent diffusion and viscosity showed that depletion was small in molecularly thin lubricant films. We considered it necessary to include thickness-dependent diffusion and viscosity in lubricant depletion simulation.

Mathematical modeling and optimization of tribological behaviour of Al 7075 based hybrid nanocomposites

2020 ◽  
pp. 135065012096578
Author(s):  
C Kannan ◽  
R Ramanujam ◽  
ASS Balan
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Industrial Applications ◽  
Heat Treatments ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Hybrid Nanocomposites ◽  
Unreinforced Alloy ◽  
Optimum Level ◽  
Hybrid Nanocomposite ◽  
Tribological Behaviour ◽  
Material Condition

Many industrial applications necessitate lightweight materials that possess better tribological behaviour. Whilst aluminium based nanocomposites are proposed owing to their lightness, their tribological characteristics must be improved which are dominantly influenced by the selection of reinforcements, manufacturing process and heat treatments. In this research, an aluminium hybrid nanocomposite is produced using a novel molten salt processing and subjected to different heat treatments. Their tribological behaviour is assessed under different operating conditions viz. load, sliding velocity and material condition of the pin. Regression models are formulated to predict the tribological behaviour of developed hybrid composite under different heat treatments. The most significant parameter and optimum level for each of these operating parameters are determined using analysis of variance, main and interaction plots and response surface methodology in the end. The integrated approach helps in deciding the optimum parameter setting for the development of nanocomposite with ameliorated tribological behaviour. Under the optimized conditions, the hybrid nanocomposite could able to reduce the wear resistance by about 63% and the coefficient of friction by 18.5% than unreinforced alloy.

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