This information will help Hutchinson Technology reduce part rejection and improve suspension performance. In addition, a potentially damaging orientation was identified. In this direction, which should be avoided during any forming process, there is a significant strain localization that would result in a very high part rejection rate and a high probability of performance failure. Benefits Structural integrity of advanced monolithic and composite materials can be evaluated in subelement form. Specimens can be mechanically loaded and uniformly heated in a highly controlled and precise manner.
Analysis is less complicated.
Biaxial yield and failure information for stainless steel sheet material is being used to improve recording head suspension assemblies for the computer industry. This information could not have existed without Lewis in-plane biaxial test systems. Hutchinson Technology is using these data to design new suspension elements, such as stiffer rails and uniform gimballing pivots. These design improvements, along with new forming processes, will increase suspension performance ultimately providing the computer industry with an inexpensive means of increasing disk storage capacity and disk access rates. The primary function of these test systems is to verify structural analysis methods under prototypical loading conditions.