Adhesion between a viscoelastic material and a solid surface

Abstract

In this paper, we present a qualitative analysis of the dissipative processes during the failure of the interface between a viscoelastic polymer and a solid surface. We reassess the "viscoelastic trumpet" model [P.-G. de Gennes, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 307, 1949 (1988)], and show that, for a crosslinked polymer, the interface toughness G(V) starts from a relatively low value, G_0, due to local processes near the fracture tip, and rises up to a maximum of order $G_0({\mu }_{\infty }/{\mu }_0)$ (where ${\mu }_0$ and ${\mu }_{\infty }$ stand for the elastic modulus of the material, respectively at low and high strain frequencies). This enhancement of fracture energy is due to far-field viscous dissipation in the bulk material, and begins for peel-rates V much lower than previously thought. For a polymer melt, the adhesion energy is predicted to scale as 1/V. In the second part of this paper, we compare some of our theoretical predictions with experimental results about the viscoelastic adhesion between a polydimethylsiloxane polymer melt and a glass surface. In particular, the expected dependence of the fracture energy versus separation rate is confirmed by the experimental data, and the observed changes in the concavity of the crack profile are in good agreement with our simple model.

Revised version to appear in Macromolecules

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