Direct Observation of Cavitation and Fibrillation in a Probe Tack Experiment on Model Acrylic Pressure-Sensitive-Adhesives
- 1 March 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in The Journal of Adhesion
- Vol. 69 (3-4), 307-359
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00218469908017233
Abstract
The adhesion mechanisms of two acrylic Pressure-Sensitive-Adhesives on a stainless steel probe are investigated with a custom-designed probe tack apparatus. Our setup allows the simultaneous acquisition of a nominal stress and strain curve, and the observation of the adhesive film from underneath the transparent substrate. The temperature was varied in the range -20°C to 50°C and the debonding rate in the range 1–10000 μm/s. For all conditions we observed, upon debonding, the formation of cavities at or near the interface between the probe and the film. These cavities initially grew predominantly in the plane of the film but, at higher values of nominal strain, the walls between the cavities were stretched in the direction normal to the plane of the ifim to become a fibrillar structure. The transition from a cavitated structure to a fibrillar one was only found within a time-temperature window of rheological properties of the adhesive, while the adhesion energy was found to be mainly related to the elongational properties of the adhesive. The maximum tensile stress observed in the probe tack experiment was directly related to the appearance of the cavities and showed a good correlation with the shear modulus of the adhesive, while the adhesion energy was found to be mainly related to the elongational properties of the adhesive. The presence of 2% acrylic acid as a comonomer had a negligible effect on the maximum stress but a very important one on the formation of a fibrillar structure and on the locus of failure.Keywords
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