Royal Society of Chemistry, Soft Matter, 10(15), p. 2223-2231, 2019
DOI: 10.1039/c8sm02579g
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Finite element is used to simulate the adhesive contact of a rigid sphere on a soft substrate. By including large deformation and strain-dependent surface stress, our prediction agrees much better with experiments, providing support to the existence of strain-dependent surface stress.