Modeling delamination of self-adhesive polymeric films

Based on peel tests and digitized images of deformed films traction-separation diagrams for self-adhesive polymeric films will be generated. To this end a non-linear theory of rods will be applied and a special variational procedure will be developed to solve an inverse problem: for a given image of the film  find a distributed load which causes the deformed configuration. Since the force interaction between the films is usually non-local, a peridynamic theory should be elaborated and applied to simulate delamination failure.