The peeling apart of layered materials is common in nature and has been used by humans
in myriad applications since prehistoric times. Over the past century, a wide range of peel …

The present work has defined an adhesive fracture energy G a for the peel testing of flexible
laminates. The value of G a characterises the fracture of the laminate and is considered to …

A cohesive zone model is proposed and analyzed for steady-state peeling of a thin rate-
independent, elastic-plastic film bonded to an elastic substrate. A traction-separation …

This book chronicles the proceedings of the International Symposium on Adhesion
Measurement of Films and Coatings, held in Boston. The articles in this book were …

Transfer printing is an exceptionally sophisticated approach to assembly and micro-
/nanofabrication that relies on a soft, elastomeric 'stamp'to transfer solid, micro-/nanoscale …

In order to study the adhesion mechanism of a viscoelastic thin-film on a substrate, peeling
experiment of a viscoelastic polyvinylchloride (PVC) thin-film on a rigid substrate (glass) is …

Insects that can perform flap**-wing flight, climb on a wall, and switch smoothly between
the 2 locomotion regimes provide us with excellent biomimetic models. However, very few …

The results of a linear-elastic analysis to determine the phase angle at the tip of an interface
crack in the peel test are presented in this paper. The phase angle is fairly insensitive to the …

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 …

The force required to peel a film from a substrate is generally a complex function of
geometry, the constitutive properties of the film and substrate, and the interfacial cohesive …