Effect of corrugated board structure on mechanical properties
The article shows the method for prediction of corrugated board properties based on automatic generation of a database containing material compositions of all the boards possible to be produced by a given manufacturer. With their large number it is not possible to carry out on the basis of measurements made on earlier manufactured products. As a result of the tests carried out with the use of data provided by the corrugated board manufacturer, it was found that using his paper materials and machinery it was possible to more than double increase the bending stiffness and edge crush resistance indexes of produced board. In some cases, the options for improving the indexes are slightly smaller, e.g. bending stiffness in the cross direction of three-layer board with flute C, the mentioned manufacturer can increase by approx. 40% of the maximum value obtained so far.