Research Information System
II nd International Furniture Congress, Muğla, Turkey, 13 - 15 October 2016, pp.72-73, (Summary Text)
Demounted furniture is increasingly preferred globally as well as our country because of the ease of the transport and installation. It is important to be unharmed transportation of this type of furniture from the last place to their use. Corrugated box most suitable material of transportation such heavy material because of it can be produced in different sizes quickly and economically besides has renewable and biodegradable features. Expectations of corrugated box, during loading, storage and carrying, protect the material. Corrugated box is exposed to various loads and deformed under this continuous or instant loads which loses its strength feature. Therefore, this packages should design carefully because their strength loses especially transported with containers. Carrying capacity of corrugated boards is determined with strength resistance tests. Recent studies imply that resistance of corrugated board box, is mostly related with the resistance of the materials which is mostly paper. Resistance of paper (Shortspan Compression Test (SCT), Concora Crush Test (CCT), Ring Crush Test (RCT), Tensile strength, Concora Medium Test(CMT), etc.), which are used in the production of corrugated board box affects the resistance of box (Edege Crush Test (ECT), Box Crush Test(BCT)). In other words, resistance of the box will decrease, as deformations will increase as the size of material extends depending upon design. It is necessary to avoid damaging during the storage time and transportation of demountable furniture. Also visual perfection necessary for that products in case any damage inside the packaging. Therefore, the design of the packaging vitally important in terms of both to be safe in product and visual perfection. The topic of this study is the importance of design of the corrugated packaging.
This study show how the resistance features of corrugated box changed depending upon the design.