It has been shown in recent years that many species in Nature employ hierarchy and contact splitting as a strategy to enhance the adhesive properties of their attachments. Maximizing the adhesive force is however not the only goal. Many animals can achieve a tunable adhesive force, which allows them to both strongly attach to a surface and easily detach when necessary. Here, we study the adhesive properties of 3D dendritic attachments, which are structures that are widely occurring in nature and which allow to achieve these goals. These structures exploit branching to provide high variability in the geometry, and thus tunability, and contact splitting, to increase the total peeling line and thus the adhesion force. By applying the same principles presented by A.A. Grifth 100 years ago, we derive an analytical model for the detachment forces as a function of their defning angles in 3D space, fnding as limit cases 2D double peeling and 1D single peeling. We also develop a numerical model, including a nonlinear elastic constitutive law, for the validation of analytical calculations, allowing additionally to simulate the entire detachment phase, and discuss how geometrical variations infuence the adhesive properties of the structure. Finally, we also realize a proof of concept experiment to further validate theoretical/ numerical results. Overall, we show how this generalized attachment structure can achieve large variations in its adhesive and mechanical properties, exploiting variations of its geometrical parameters, and thus tunability. The in-depth study of similar basic structural units and their combination can in future lead to a better understanding of the mechanical properties of complex architectures found in Nature

A 3D Griffith Peeling Model to Unify and Generalize Single and Double Peeling Theories / Liprandi, Daniele; Misseroni, Diego; Bosia, Federico; Fraldi, Massimiliano; Pugno, Nicola M.. - In: MECCANICA. - ISSN 0025-6455. - 57:5(2022), pp. 1125-1138. [10.1007/s11012-022-01480-1]

A 3D Griffith Peeling Model to Unify and Generalize Single and Double Peeling Theories

Daniele Liprandi
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Diego Misseroni;Federico Bosia;Massimiliano Fraldi;Nicola M. Pugno
2022-01-01

Abstract

It has been shown in recent years that many species in Nature employ hierarchy and contact splitting as a strategy to enhance the adhesive properties of their attachments. Maximizing the adhesive force is however not the only goal. Many animals can achieve a tunable adhesive force, which allows them to both strongly attach to a surface and easily detach when necessary. Here, we study the adhesive properties of 3D dendritic attachments, which are structures that are widely occurring in nature and which allow to achieve these goals. These structures exploit branching to provide high variability in the geometry, and thus tunability, and contact splitting, to increase the total peeling line and thus the adhesion force. By applying the same principles presented by A.A. Grifth 100 years ago, we derive an analytical model for the detachment forces as a function of their defning angles in 3D space, fnding as limit cases 2D double peeling and 1D single peeling. We also develop a numerical model, including a nonlinear elastic constitutive law, for the validation of analytical calculations, allowing additionally to simulate the entire detachment phase, and discuss how geometrical variations infuence the adhesive properties of the structure. Finally, we also realize a proof of concept experiment to further validate theoretical/ numerical results. Overall, we show how this generalized attachment structure can achieve large variations in its adhesive and mechanical properties, exploiting variations of its geometrical parameters, and thus tunability. The in-depth study of similar basic structural units and their combination can in future lead to a better understanding of the mechanical properties of complex architectures found in Nature
2022
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Liprandi, Daniele; Misseroni, Diego; Bosia, Federico; Fraldi, Massimiliano; Pugno, Nicola M.
A 3D Griffith Peeling Model to Unify and Generalize Single and Double Peeling Theories / Liprandi, Daniele; Misseroni, Diego; Bosia, Federico; Fraldi, Massimiliano; Pugno, Nicola M.. - In: MECCANICA. - ISSN 0025-6455. - 57:5(2022), pp. 1125-1138. [10.1007/s11012-022-01480-1]
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