Controlled propagation and jamming of a delamination front

We study the birth and propagation of a delamination front in the peeling of a soft, weakly adhesive layer. In a controlled-displacement setting, the layer partially detaches via a subcritical instability and the motion continues until arrested, by jamming of the two lobes. Using numerical solutions...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kothari, Mrityunjay, Lemon, Zoë, Roth, Christine, Cohen, Tal
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/128424