  The adhesion between a polymer melt and substrate is studied in the presence
of chemically attached chains on the substrate surface. Extensive molecular
dynamics simulations have been carried out to study the effect of temperature,
tethered chain areal density ($\Sigma$), tethered chain length ($N_{t}$), chain
bending energy ($k_{\theta}$) and tensile pull velocity ($v$) on the adhesive
failure mechanisms of pullout and/or scission of the tethered chains. We
observe a crossover from pure chain pullout to chain scission as $N_{t}$ is
increased. Below the glass transition, the value of $N_{t}$ for which this
crossover begins approaches the bulk entanglement length $N_{e}$. For the
values of $N_{t}$ and $\Sigma$ used here, no crossover to crazing is observed.
