Impact of Corrugated Paperboard Structure on Puncture Resistance

Abstract

Thanks to its excellent protective properties, lightness, a reasonable price, and ecology, corrugated paperboard is one of the most popular materials used in the production of packaging for various products. During transportation or storage, packaging with goods can be exposed to the mass of other commodities, dropping from heights and transportation shock loads, which can lead to their puncture damage. Depending on the purpose and size of the packaging, the thickness, grammage, constituent paper layers, numbers of layers and type of fluting of corrugated paperboard used in its production differ. A standard triangular prism, corrugated paperboard fixation plates and a universal tensioncompression machine were used to investigate the impact of corrugated paperboard structure and other parameters on the puncture resistance of the material. The investigation determines the maximum puncture load and estimates energy required to penetrate the corrugated paperboard. It was found that the greatest puncture resistance is demonstrated by paperboard with a larger number of corrugating flutings and the board produced from harder paper with a smaller amount of recycled paper. It was established that the grammage of three-layered paperboard with two different fluting profiles has the greatest impact on the level of static puncture energy.

A green-based manufacturing system to solve pallet shortage problems

“…A corrugated pallet is made of kraft-paper layers forming a corrugated structure. Corrugated cardboard is one of the most popular packaging materials used for various products; the paper's quality is adjustable to the packaging's use and size, thickness, paperweight, layers of paper and the number of layers, also the groove-type of corrugated cartons used in various production ( Bivainis and Jankauskas, 2015 ). Corrugated paper is a multi-layered structure (three or five layers) material separated by paper glue.…”

Investigation of different cardboard materials under impact loads

“…Particularly during transport processes, packaging materials have to endure high loads. Consequently, products may be exposed to various incidents during their handling and transport, such as dropping from a higher level, impact-loads, compressions to the mass of other packages, or vibration during the transportation process (Bivainis and Jankauskas 2015;Luong et al 2021). The transported goods are in a packaging box made from cardboard.…”

“…This test-rig aims to reflect the effects of impact caused by an unfixed spherical object of a transported good. Bivainis and Jankauskas (2015) explored the impact behavior of corrugated paperboard using puncture resistance tests. It was shown that the puncture energy has strong linear relationship with grammage of corrugated paperboard.…”

Study on the cardboard behavior during the vacuum picking process in automatic pantyhose packaging machine

“…Park [10] carried out vibration transmissibility test and drop shock test for the transmissibility-frequency curve and dynamic cushion curve of corrugated fiberboard. Bivainis [11] used a standard triangular prism, corrugated paperboard fixation plates and a universal tension-compression machine to investigate the impact of corrugated paperboard structure and other parameters on the puncture resistance of corrugated paperboard.…”