Food Engineering Progress
Korean Society for Food Engineering
Article

골판지의 골 성형이 식품포장용 골판지 상자의 압축강도에 미치는 영향

김청1, 허재영1, 이광근1,*
Cheong Kim1, Jae-Young Her1, Kwang-Geun Lee1,*
1동국대학교 식품공학과
1Department of Food Science and Technology, Dongguk University
*Corresponding author: Kwang-Geun Lee, Department of Food Science and Technology, Dongguk University, Pil-dong, Jung-gu, Seoul 100-715, Korea, Tel: +82-2-2260-3370; Fax: +82-2-2285-3370, E-mail: kwglee@dongguk.edu

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Received: Aug 12, 2009; Revised: Mar 25, 2010; Accepted: Mar 31, 2010

Published Online: May 31, 2010

Abatract

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, R2=0.8142) and inversely proportional to the medium density (y=-3.1213x+6.8736, R2=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