Mechanics of reversible unzipping
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Publication:407628
DOI10.1007/S00161-009-0108-2zbMATH Open1234.74013arXiv0906.1477OpenAlexW3102793364MaRDI QIDQ407628FDOQ407628
Francesco Maddalena, G. Puglisi, L. Truskinovsky, Danilo Percivale
Publication date: 27 March 2012
Published in: Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: We study the mechanics of a reversible decohesion (unzipping) of an elastic layer subjected to quasi-static end-point loading. At the micro level the system is simulated by an elastic chain of particles interacting with a rigid foundation through breakable springs. Such system can be viewed as prototypical for the description of a wide range of phenomena from peeling of polymeric tapes, to rolling of cells, working of gecko's fibrillar structures and denaturation of DNA. We construct a rigorous continuum limit of the discrete model which captures both stable and metastable configurations and present a detailed parametric study of the interplay between elastic and cohesive interactions. We show that the model reproduces the experimentally observed abrupt transition from an incremental evolution of the adhesion front to a sudden complete decohesion of a macroscopic segment of the adhesion layer. As the microscopic parameters vary the macroscopic response changes from quasi-ductile to quasi-brittle, with corresponding decrease in the size of the adhesion hysteresis. At the micro-scale this corresponds to a transition from a `localized' to a `diffuse' structure of the decohesion front (domain wall). We obtain an explicit expression for the critical debonding threshold in the limit when the internal length scales are much smaller than the size of the system. The achieved parametric control of the microscopic mechanism can be used in the design of new biological inspired adhesion devices and machines.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.1477
Micromechanical theories (74A60) Continuum models (systems of particles, etc.) arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B21) Dynamic continuum models (systems of particles, etc.) in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C21)
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