Adhesive contact of rough brushes

• Qiang Li and
• Valentin L. Popov

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 2405–2412, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.225

• modification due to finite size effect of the brush. Keywords: adhesion; brushes; contact splitting; pressure sensitive adhesion; roughness; Introduction The study of adhesive contacts has been largely enhanced by studies of the extremely effective adhesion pads of geckos [1]. For example, the adhesion can

• (Figure 4b). In region I, a pressure sensitive adhesion must be considered. In this region, the force of adhesion is proportional to the applied normal force and is uniquely determined by the proportionality coefficient, c, which sometimes is called the adhesion coefficient [21][22]. The numerically found