Journal
INTERFACE FOCUS
Volume 5, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rsfs.2014.0051
Keywords
adhesion; numerical simulations; multiple peeling; spider web anchorages
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- European Research Council (ERC) [279985]
- BIHSNAM
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Adhesion of spider web anchorages has been studied in recent years, including the specific functionalities achieved through different architectures. To better understand the delamination mechanisms of these and other biological or artificial fibrillar adhesives, and how their adhesion can be optimized, we develop a novel numerical model to simulate the multiple peeling of structures with arbitrary branching and adhesion angles, including complex architectures. The numerical model is based on a recently developed multiple peeling theory, which extends the energy-based single peeling theory of Kendall, and can be applied to arbitrarily complex structures. In particular, we numerically show that a multiple peeling problem can be treated as the superposition of single peeling configurations even for complex structures. Finally, we apply the developed numerical approach to study spider web anchorages, showing how their function is achieved through optimal geometrical configurations.
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