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Capillary Adhesion Effect in Contact Interaction of Soft Materials

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Contact Problems for Soft, Biological and Bioinspired Materials

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A model of capillary adhesion between an elastic half-space and an axisymmetric asperity or a periodic system of asperities is presented. The model is based on the contact problem solution for an indenter, whose shape is described by the power law function, in contact with an elastic half-space in the presence of an additional load (Laplace capillary pressure) outside the contact region. The volume of fluid in each meniscus is assumed constant during loading and unloading processes. Methods of calculation of the contact characteristics such as contact and capillary pressures, contact area, and load-distance dependencies are developed. The results obtained are used to analyze the effects of fluid volume in a meniscus, surface tension of fluid, elastic properties of the half-space, shape of an asperity, and mutual influence of neighbor asperities on the contact characteristics. The load-distance dependencies for an asperity and a half-space are shown to have hysteresis, and the corresponding energy dissipation in an approach-retraction cycle is calculated and analyzed depending on the fluid volume, its surface tension, elastic properties of contacting bodies, and shape of the asperity.

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The work was carried out under the financial support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grant 20-01-00400-a).

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Goryacheva, I.G., Makhovskaya, Y.Y. (2022). Capillary Adhesion Effect in Contact Interaction of Soft Materials. In: Borodich, F.M., Jin, X. (eds) Contact Problems for Soft, Biological and Bioinspired Materials. Biologically-Inspired Systems, vol 15. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85175-0_4

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