Dynamics of the peel front and the nature of acoustic emission during peeling of an adhesive tape
arXiv:cond-mat/0608643 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.165503
Abstract
We investigate the peel front dynamics and acoustic emission of an adhesive tape within the context of a recent model by including an additional dissipative energy that mimics bursts of acoustic signals. We find that the nature of the peeling front can vary from smooth to stuck-peeled configuration depending on the values of dissipation coefficient, inertia of the roller, mass of the tape. Interestingly, we find that the distribution of AE bursts shows a power law statistics with two scaling regimes with increasing pull velocity as observed in experiments. In this regimes, the stuck-peeled configuration is similar to the `edge of peeling' reminiscent of a system driven to a critical state.
Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett