most citedEmergence of the interplay between hierarchy and contact splitting in biological adhesion highlighted through a hierarchical shear lag model

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Emergence of the interplay between hierarchy and contact splitting in biological adhesion highlighted through a hierarchical shear lag model

Lucas Brely, Federico Bosia, Nicola M. Pugno

Contact unit size reduction is a widely studied mechanism as a means to improve adhesion in natural fibrillar systems, such as those observed in beetles or geckos. However, these a…