Fibre bundle models as a framework for the detachment dynamics of soft probabilistic fasteners

Soft hook-and-loop fasteneres have an interesting detachment dynamics. Here our collaborators showed that these detachments can be modeled with a fiber bundle model approach.

A.D. Filippov, P. Sharma, F. Helmendach, J.A. Dijksman, R.C. Hidalgo — Frontiers in Physics 12 (2024)

10.3389/fphy.2024.1412352