Effect of thin-film length on the peeling behavior of film-substrate interfaces

Compared with the classical Kendall's model to analyze the steady-state peeling behavior of an infinite length film attaching to a rigid substrate, this paper establishes a model of a finite length thin film adhering on a rigid substrate and analyzes the influence of film's initial adhesion length, film stiffness, and initial cantilever length of films on the whole interface peeling behavior. Both theoretical prediction and finite element...