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ISO 5628 Stiffness

Standard:

ISO

Method:

ISO 5628

Title:

Determination of bending stiffness — General principles for two-point, three-point and four-point methods

Introduction

Bending stiffness is regarded as an important property of paper and board, and a large number of test methods have been used for its determination. This is a result, in part at least, of the wide range in the bending stiffness of paper and board. For paper and board in the grammage range 50 g/m2 to 500 g/m2, bending stiffness might vary by a factor of over 1 000. This wide variation is reflected in the design of instruments intended for the measurement of this property.

Scope

ISO 5628 Stiffness specifies three separate test methods for determining the bending stiffness of paper and paperboard. The test methods differ in the type of loading mode, thus giving rise to the two-point, three-point and four-point bending test methods.

For paper and paperboard in a low thickness range, the two-point bending method and the three-point bending method are suitable.

For corrugated fiberboard and board with a higher thickness, the four-point bending method is recommended.

The measurement conditions are defined in such a way that the test piece is not subjected to any significant permanent deformation during the test, nor is the range of validity of the equations for calculating the bending stiffness exceeded.

 

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