Attachment devices are essential adaptations for climbing animals and valuable models for
synthetic adhesives. A major unresolved question for both natural and bioinspired …

This work presents a survey of computational methods for adhesive contact focusing on
general continuum mechanical models for attractive interactions between solids that are …

ABSTRACT A Bayesian regularization-backpropagation neural network (BR-BPNN) model
is employed to predict some aspects of the gecko spatula peeling, viz. the variation of the …

We develop two new continuum contact models for coupled adhesion and friction, and
discuss them in the context of existing models proposed in the literature. Our new models …

The application of hydrogels has recently expanded markedly owning to the achievement of
strong adhesion. In characterizing adhesion, a hydrogel is often subjected to 90° peel …

An analytical model of peeling of an elastic tape from a substrate is presented for large
deformations and scenarios where sliding occurs in the adhered regions, with this motion …

Inspired by the experimental observation that the maximum peeling force of elastic films on
rigid substrates does not always emerge at the steady-state peeling stage, but sometimes at …

The peeling of an elastic thin tape from a flat smooth viscoelastic substrate is investigated.
Based on a Green function approach and on the translational invariance, a closed form …

During peeling of a soft elastic strip from a substrate, strong adhesional forces act locally
inside the peeling zone. It is shown here that when a standard contact finite element (FE) …

In this work, a new adhesion model is proposed to analyze the peeling behavior of
hyperelastic beams from a rigid flat substrate by utilizing a recently developed finite strain …