Using a MTS micro-tensile testing machine equipped with a video camera, we studied the peeling dynamics of double sided adhesive tapes under imposed displacement. A standard T -peel test was considered for the tape system in order to assess its toughness and strength. The strength necessary to separate the folds and the total energy required to detach them were thus measured. The effects of the fold length and width both on the strength and energy adsorption were also evaluated, suggesting new strategies for the design of super-tough bio-inspired materials, mainly the need of a nanoscopic thickness thus suggesting graphene as the ideal candidate to produce super-tough nanomaterials.
Keywords:Since the inception of structural bonding, peel tests have been an integral part of the adhesive performance specifications, and have played an important role in the development of adhesives.The phenomenon of adhesion has attracted attention due to scientific challenges it poses as well as for their industrial importance. Science of adhesion is truly interdisciplinary, involving a great variety of different interrelated physical phenomena like friction, fracture, mechanics of contact, visco-plastic deformation and interfacial properties, such as debonding and rupture of adhesive bonds.