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This work presents an elastic-plastic contact model between the dimple and gimbal in a hard disk drive suspension using finite element analysis (FEA). Contact load, contact area and stress distribution are determined in comparison with the classical solid sphere model for a range of interferences in the elastic-plastic regime of deformations. The results show that the simplified model of a solid sphere contacting a rigid flat appears to be a good first order approximation to simulate the actual dimple/gimbal contact problem.
