“Short-range adhesion in viscoelastic materials delays contact formation and crack closure due to increased dissipation”

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38112508

The study finds that short-range adhesion in viscoelastic materials delays contact formation and crack closure due to increased dissipation, with the macroscopic relaxation time scaling approximately with 1/ρ1.8, where ρ is the range of adhesion.