Studying of the compression resistance of the corrugated paperboard package

Abstract

The corrugated paperboard is the most used material for producing of a large variety of packages for almost every industry. The reason lies mainly in its low price, lightness and its potential for recycling. Despite of this, different international treaties and laws require the lowering of the quantity of material used for making one package. This brings the need for implying new and advanced approaches for designing one product so its mass is reduced while its quality and strength characteristics remain unchanged. Using models of packages based on the Finite Element Method (FEM) can give the designers the opportunity to examine the distribution of stress and deformation and implement changes in the products configuration until the optimal design is reached. The document presents one such model of a corrugated paperboard package which has been created and subjected to compressive loading. Then a real package with the same geometrical configuration as the model has been tested. The results from the real experiments and the values obtained from the FEM have been compared.