🦎 Fibrillar Adhesion: Contact Splitting, JKR Pull-Off and Peel Angle (2D)

Side view of a gecko-style fibrillar pad on a wall. Set tip radius, work of adhesion, modulus, pad area, tip fill fraction, peel angle and animal mass, and compare the JKR pull-off of one tip, the grip of millions of tips and the peel force of the whole pad. Contact splitting scaling and Kendall peel energy balance, with four in-page numerical checks.