Autographs from Peeling Fiber Reinforced Pressure Sensitive Adhesives: Correlation with Failure Mechanisms

In past studies, we have investigated the nature of the photon emission accompanying the peeling of pressure sensitive adhesive tapes. These studies included producing clear images of the emitted light created by direct attachment/detachment of the adhesive from photographic film (i.e., autographs). Here we present an extension of this work to very slow peeling rates (< 0.05 mm/s) in which we examine how the resulting autographs from fiber reinforced tape are influenced by the micro-mechanical behavior of this composite tape during high angle peeling.