By Christian Metz
"... much less approximately movie than in regards to the psychology of the viewing experience." —American Film
Employing Freudian psychoanalysis, Christian Metz explores the character of cinematic spectatorship and appears on the operations of that means within the movie text.
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Generally speaking, the present theoretical model is approximately valid to predict the order of magnitude of the effective adhesion length, beyond which the nanofilm will be peeled off from the rigid substrate. 2 Comparison with Kendall’s Model Kendall’s peeling model [45] is popular in studying the mechanical behavior of film-substrate interface, in which it is assumed that the adhesion length of film is infinite. According to Kendall’s model, the peeling force can be expressed as a function of the peeling angle 2Dc p ¼ qffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffiffi ð1 À cos hÞ2 þ 2Dc Et þ ð1 À cos hÞ ð3:16Þ Fig.
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Specially, a relatively real hierarchical model was proposed by Chen et al. [6], in which the intermediate level of the structure consists of setae while the lowest level was modeled as spatulae. However, the above hierarchical models could not account for an important experimental observation that a critical detachment angle independent on the peeling force existed for gecko’s hierarchical setae and even for the entire toe [7]. Above the critical angle, no apparent adhesion force could be detected for the hierarchical structure.