Effect of Peel Load on Stringiness Phenomena and Peel Speed of Pressure-Sensitive Adhesive Tape

Abstract The factors governing interfacial separation in lightly cross-linked polymer adhesives at low pulling rates as demonstrated by their stringiness phenomenon are investigated. Cohesive failure and adhesive/substrate interfacial separation of uncross-linked polymer adhesives have been adequately explained. However, in lightly cross-linked polymer adhesives, where cohesive failure cannot occur because there is no viscous flow, there are two regions of interfacial separation at low rate and this phemonenon cannot be readily explained by present viscoelastic theories. Investigation of the stringiness phenomenon of peeling pressure-sensitive adhesive tapes at constant loads shows that two peeling speeds exist for any peeling load up to the vicinity of 200 g/25 mm. Also it is clear that stringiness structure differs greatly at each peeling speed. The stringiness phenomenon of each of these two regions is analyzed using Miyagi's observation apparatus. These two measurements are then reversed and a compari...