Takanori Kitamura

Study of Expert Technology on Producing Paper Tubes

Paper tubes are usually produced by expert workers who are trained from experience. The manufacture technology can also be developed by this empirical rule. The so-called expert is non-expert person who is trained in the daily working and improve the technology by himself. It is a task for middle and small-sized enterprises in how to train the workers in a short time effectively. This is not only for paper tubes production, but also for a small factory on how to inherit its technology in a short time effectively. The objective of this is to analyze the motion for paper tubes fabricating by observe difference between expert and non-expert at work site as one of “Great master’s work” in middle and small-sized enterprises.

Mechanical Property and Function of Bamboo Charcoal Paperboard

In this research, the bamboo charcoal paperboards (BCPs) were manufactured by paper making method. The paperboards constitute of many layers and each layer could be produced by different fibers materials. Bamboo charcoal was used and combined with recycled paper such as magazine, newspaper and corrugated paper box and so on. The mechanical properties included tension, compression, and pealing were tested to evaluate its potential applications. The scanning electron microscope observation was also conducted on the bamboo charcoal particle. At the same time, the benefit of bamboo charcoal paperboards on promoting attention for study was also evaluated. For attention effects on study, questionnaire survey was conducted from student to evaluate the effects of BCPs environment on studying. The brain wave data could be obtained during this process and investigated. The results indicated bamboo charcoal walls have good effect on concentrate attention to study.

Effect of Paper Property on Mechanical Property of Paper Tube

Paper recycling is an effective way in reducing deforestation and energy consumption. Therefore recycling paper and paper products has been widely applied in many areas, such as packaging industry, film rolls, adhesive-tape industry, furniture decoration and temporary structures in building. They can be produced into various structure according to different requirement, such as paper tube, corrugated paperboard and normal paperboard. Paper-tubes gain more and more applications as a traditional structure due to their excellent mechanical property and environmentally friendly property. In order to meet various needs of paper-tube and produce high performance paper-tubes, designing for paper-tubes fabrication is needed. It is necessary to research the lateral compression strength of paper tube because various paper-tubes are used as packages, cores, poles and structure materials. To establish a relation of mechanical property between paperboards and paper-tubes is an important aspect. The current study is to investigate this relation. Paperboards are built from cellulose fibers jointed by hydrogen bonds and some additional elements like talc. The fibers are distributed randomly on the paperboards. However due to the tension action during fabrication process, more fibers are distributed in machine rolling direction which is defined as machine direction (MD, TD for transverse direction). The material expresses obvious anisotropic property. On the other hand, due to the laminated structure of paper materials, it is possible to generate interlaminar fracture in the usage process, especially in the construction made of paper such as paper tubes. The mechanical property of three kinds of paperboards used for paper-tubes fabrication was investigated included tension, compression and peeling combining with anisotropic property.These three kinds of paperboards have different mechanical properties but same dimension for paper-tubes fabrications. By this method, the effects of different properties including tension, compression and peeling on mechanical property of paper-tube could be evaluated. A series of paper-tubes with different layers was fabricated and the lateral compression test was carried out and evaluated. The fracture form of paper-tubes and fracture position on paper-tube were discussed together with paperboards. The cause of delamination behavior of laminated paper was analysis based on the detailed observation. The optical observation were employed to evaluate the fracture properties of paper-tubes after lateral compression test. It was found that the initial fracture of paper-tubes occurred inside the paperboards rather than between layers and the peeling property of paperboard has a signification effects on lateral compression property of paper-tubes.Copyright

Mechanical Properties of Paper Thermosetting Resin Composites by Various Paper Materials

Recycling and reusing is a noticeable method for environment protecting. Recycled paper is one of the most successful cases as it contributes to energy saving, low cost, low wood consumption and environmental protection. During paper recycling process, many different kinds of raw materials can be used. Paperboards made of different raw materials showed different properties. In this study, three kinds of raw materials were selected to fabricate paperboards respectively combining with thermosetting resin, paperboards reinforced plastic composite was laminated by hand layup method. Detailed observation were carried out to analysis the molding stations including the tensile property which was investigated on both unnotched and notched specimens, besides, to investigate the anisotropy, tensile test was conducted on the specimens both in machine rolling direction and transverse direction. SEM was also employed to observe the materials and fracture area respectively.Copyright

Lateral Compressive Properties of Paper Tube

Recycled paper is helpful to reduce trash discharge, save resource and cost. Tube is one of the most common structures of recycled paper in application. It is an excellent choice for packing. It’s also used in the construction of temporary structures for both exhibition spaces or for rapid-recovery shelters in emergency operations. As paper tubes are laminated by paperboards which are inherent anisotropy materials, the researches on mechanical property and fracture behavior became complicated. In the current study, paperboards used for paper tubes were tested on universal testing machine to investigate their basis mechanical properties. Then, paper tubes fabricated with different kinds of paperboard and number of ply were used to investigate lateral compressive properties by Instron universal testing machine. And, a camera was employed to record the fracture process of paper tube during compression process. The fracture mechanism of paper tubes were discussed and analyzed during compressed process based on the load-displacement curves and detailed observation. Additionally, ls-dyna software was used to conduct numerical simulation and analyze stress distribution of paper tube during lateral compression.Copyright

A New Paper Tube Laminated by Plastics

Recycled paper and plastics are widely used in current society. Recycled paper is very helpful to reduce waste emissions and energy consumption, saving resource and cost and environment protection. Recycled paper tube is one of the most successful cases in application of recycled paper. Plastics and Recycled paper are excellent choices for packing materials. They are also used to construct temporary structures for both exhibition spaces or for rapid-recovery shelters in emergency operations. As paper tubes are laminated composite materials composited of paperboard which is inherent anisotropy materials, the research on mechanical property and fracture behavior becomes more complicated. In order to analyze deformation and fracture behavior of paper tube and paper tube laminated combined with polymer under lateral compressive load, both the paper tube and hybrid paper tube which was dipped in to the thermosets resin were tested and compared. The energy analysis was also conducted here.Copyright

Delamination Behavior of Laminated Paper

Paper recycling is an effective way in reducing deforestation and energy consumption. Therefore recycling paper and paper products has been widely applied in many areas, such as packaging industry, furniture decoration, temporary structures in building and so on. Paper products are made from plant fibers and they are laminated materials. So it is of possible to generate interlaminar fracture in the use of paper products, especially in the construction made of paper such as paper tubes which have been used widely. In order to improve the interlaminar performance of paper products and then improve the construction performance of paper products, delamination behavior of laminated paper has been studied in this paper. By a series of peel tests, comparative analysis about different paperboard were carried out. The cause of delamination behavior of laminated paper was analysis based on the detailed observation using a scanning electron microscope (SEM).Copyright

Evaluation of Mechanical Properties of Paper Tubes

Recycled paper is helpful to reduce trash discharge, save resource and cost. Recycled paper tube is one of the most successful cases in application of recycled paper. It is an excellent choice for packing. It’s also used in the construction of temporary structures for both exhibition spaces or for rapid-recovery shelters in emergency operations. As paper tubes are laminated composite materials composited of paperboard which is inherent anisotropy materials, the research on mechanical property and fracture behavior becomes more complicated. In order to analyze deformation and fracture behavior of paper tubes under lateral compressive load, six types of paper tube fabricated with different kinds of paperboard and number of ply were examined in this study. The six types included three different kinds of paperboard. Cracks propagation was observed through lateral compression test process. At the same time, energy absorption in elastic stage was discussed between different paper tubes.Copyright