“…The present paper is aimed to develop a model of reversible adhesion within the framework of adhesive contact mechanics which has so far been largely limited to isotropic materials (Johnson et al, 1971;Derjaguin et al, 1975;Roberts and Thomas, 1975;Muller et al, 1980;Greenwood and Johnson, 1981;Barquins, 1988;Maugis, 1992;Carpick et al, 1996;Chaudhury et al, 1996;Baney and Hui, 1997;Greenwood, 1997;Johnson and Greenwood, 1997;Barthel, 1998;Greenwood and Johnson, 1998;Robbe-Valloire and Barquins, 1998;Kim et al, 1998;Morrow et al, 2003;Schwarz, 2003;Chen and Gao, 2006a, b, c ;Chen and Wang, 2006). Our model provides a connection between the interfacial fracture model for reversible adhesion by Yao and Gao (2006) and the contact mechanics models.…”