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Effect of Corrugation Fluting on the Compressive Strength of Corrugated Fiberboard Box for Food Packaging  

Kim, Cheong (Department of Food Science and Technology, Dongguk University)
Her, Jae-Young (Department of Food Science and Technology, Dongguk University)
Lee, Kwang-Geun (Department of Food Science and Technology, Dongguk University)
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Food Engineering Progress / v.14, no.2, 2010 , pp. 106-111 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this study, we performed corrugation fluting experiments to examine the relationship between high-low corrugation of a corrugated medium and compressive strength of corrugated containers for food packaging. A low-grade corrugated medium was found to suffer from weak tensile resistance and to be prone to stealing, which tends to produce low corrugation. In contrast, a medium with a large corrugation deviation often caused slimming during fluting and produced irregular corrugations. Experiments of high-low corrugation distribution according to corrugated medium grades indicate that a high grade medium shows a smaller ratio of low corrugation. The thickness of corrugated fiberboard is weakly correlated to the basis weight of medium, yet positively correlated to the medium thickness (y=3.9732x+4.2712, $R^{2}=0.8142$) and inversely proportional to the medium density (y=-3.1213x+6.8736, $R^{2}=0.9919$). Compressive strength of a corrugated fiberboard box is low, if made of corrugated medium with large low corrugation distribution. Compressive strength showed 13% variation with respect to medium grades and 21% variation for various test samples. The corrugation fluting of a corrugated medium is related to physical properties such as basis thickness and density.
Keywords
food packaging; corrugated fiberboard; corrugated fiberboard box; high-low corrugation; compressive strength;
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