Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering (Aug 2024)

Propagation of elastic waves in adhesive contacts: experiment and numerical model

  • Iakov A. Lyashenko,
  • Aleksander E. Filippov,
  • Valentin L. Popov,
  • Valentin L. Popov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmech.2024.1400366
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10

Abstract

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The entry and propagation of pores inside an adhesive interface between an elastomer and a rigid sphere were studied experimentally and simulated numerically. It was shown that mutually interacting events involving attachment–detachment of different segments of the elastomer to the indenter resulted in non-trivial patterns of spatially distributed contacts between them, which were additionally influenced by air penetration of the pores.

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