Elastic Modulus

Material Stiffness

Mechanical resistance to deformation under applied tension describes the intrinsic stiffness of a paperboard sheet before it reaches its plastic limit. The property known as elastic modulus measures the slope of the initial stress-strain curve when the material is pulled or bent. It reflects the strength of the hydrogen bonds between the individual cellulose fibres within the sheet.

This property does not capture the behavior of the board after it begins to yield or when it undergoes permanent creasing. It acts instead as the baseline for calculating the bending stiffness of the undeformed paperboard.

Tensile Performance

Paper webs experience significant tension during high-speed printing and converting processes. A high elastic modulus prevents the web from stretching or tearing under this tension. By measuring this value, mills ensure the paperboard will run without breaks.

It is determined in both the machine and cross directions.

Stiffness Prediction

Bending stiffness depends directly on the thickness of the board and the material’s elastic modulus. For a given caliper, a board with a higher elastic modulus has greater resistance to bending. Mills adjust the pulp refining and chemical additives to increase this value.

This helps produce lightweight boards that do not bulge.

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Bulk Conditioning Standard Solid Bleached Sulfate

Standard Laboratory Methods for Paperboard Flexural Rigidity

Paperboard flexural rigidity depends on the cube of caliper, requiring exact ISO 2493 or TAPPI T 489 instrument alignment and strict 23°C/50% RH conditioning.

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Mechanical Pulp Bending Stiffness Sheet Caliper

Downgauging Board Caliper through High Bulk Furnish Chemistry Mechanics

High-bulk BCTMP cores maintain boxboard bending stiffness during caliper downgauging while chemical wet-end additives prevent delamination under score creasing.

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ISO 187 Eucalyptus Kraft Pulp ISO 186

Hardwood Substitution Impacts on Mechanical Stiffness and Converting Line Headroom

Hardwood pulp substitution increases sheet density but reduces caliper, dropping bending stiffness cubically and eroding high-speed converting line speed headroom.

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Surface Energy Cleavage Failure Solid Bleached Sulfate

Crosslinked Polyurethane Soft Touch Lamination Stress Fracture Limits under Dynamic Humidity Cycling

Crosslinked polyurethane soft touch films crack under cyclic humidity when interfacial shear stress exceeds film yield strength at elevated substrate moisture content.

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Sheet-Fed Press Runnability Edge Waving Moisture Gradient

Modeling Hygral Stress Profiles and Edge Waving in High-Bulk Recycled Cartonboard Skids

Modeling transient moisture gradients and hygral stress in high-bulk recycled cartonboard skids establishes barrier wrap limits to prevent press edge waving

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Tropical Storage Board Caliper Cyclic Humidity

Predicting Long-Term Creep Buckling of Downgauged Folding Boxboard under Cyclic Tropical Humidity

Predicting downgauged boxboard creep buckling under cyclic tropical humidity requires integrating mechano-sorptive strain compliance into structural failure models.

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Water Retention Value Coated Recycled Board Scott Bond

Recycled Boxboard Fiber Classification and Mechanical Refining Dynamics

Fractionating recycled furnish prior to low-consistency refining preserves boxboard caliper while meeting internal bond targets at reduced energy consumption.

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Basis Weight Bending Stiffness Downgauging

Downgauging Folding Boxboard without Losing Compression Strength

Downgauging folding boxboard demands increasing core bulk and outer ply elastic modulus to preserve caliper and bending stiffness under McKee formula laws.

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