Surface Metrology Principles for Snow and Ice Friction Studies

Recent advances in surface metrology science are applied to understanding friction with snow and ice. Conventional surface metrology’s measurement, analyses, and characterizations, have inherent limitations for elucidating tribological interactions. Strong functional correlations and confident discriminations with slider surface topographies, textures, or “roughness”, have largely eluded researchers using conventional methods. Building on 4 decades of research using multiscale geometric methods, two surface metrology axioms and corollaries are proposed with good potential to provide new technological insights.

Analysis of the Adhered Particle Secondary Migration on the Slider Air Bearing Surface

An entrapped particle on the slider air bearings damages the surface of the slider or the disk. The study of particle movement on and the particle adhesion mechanism onto the slider surface is critical to reduce entrapped particle-induced damage. In this paper, we extend the previous work proposing a dynamical model of the adhesive particle redistribution and migration on the slider surface. The model predicts whether the adhered particle will remain stationary action of the aerodynamic forces. Further, particle behaviors after detachment are analyzed considering the effects of flow shear rate, particle diameter and properties. There are four particle movement styles on the slider surface. Finally, the particle migration trajectory and velocity with time on the slider surface are presented.

Laser Cleaning of Polypropylene Contamination on Magnetic Head Slider Surface

This work aims to obtain the well-implemented laser cleaning to remove polypropylene (PP) contamination of sizes ragne 10-60 µm on magnetic head slider by excimer laser at 248 nm. The finite element: FEM [1] simulations shows non-destructive cleaning at laser fluence of 100mJ/cm2. The experiment shows that laser fluence is non-destructive at 70mJ/cm2 and can remove 15-40% of polypropylene (PP) contamination.