Improvement of Strain and Elastic Modulus of Linerboard to Prevent Score Crack

  • Chin, Seong-Min (Department of Forest Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University) ;
  • Choi, Ik-Sun (Department of Forest Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University) ;
  • Lee, Hak-Lae (Department of Forest Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University) ;
  • Youn, Hye-Jung (Department of Forest Sciences, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University)
  • 투고 : 2010.12.04
  • 심사 : 2010.12.22
  • 발행 : 2010.12.30

초록

When corrugated board is folded at the severely low humidity condition, crack can occur along the scored (or creased) lines of linerboard. This phenomenon is called as score (or crease) crack. It is mainly resulted from the excessive concentration of stress on the outer layer of linerboard. To overcome score crack, many approaches including the installation of constant temperature and humidity system, displacement of low grade raw material by long and strong fibers, or application of water have been tried. We examined the effect of the weight fraction of top layer in two-ply sheet, freeness of top layer stock and wet pressing on strain and elastic modulus of sheet to prevent score crack. Lower freeness and higher press load increased the density and elastic modulus of sheet. Pressing load over the $50kgf/cm^2$, however, decreased the strain of sheet. The weight fraction of top layer had positive effect on strain as well as elastic modulus without increasing the density of sheet.

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