The effect of fiber dimensions on fiber network activation and tensile strength
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Iiro Pulkkinen
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Ville Alopaeus
Abstract
The objective of this work was to check the fiber network activation parameter developed earlier by the authors for eucalypt pulp fibers to predict technical properties of paper. The fiber size analyses were performed with an optical fiber analyzer that applies 2D image analysis techniques on single fibers. The effects of fiber length, fiber width, fiber wall thickness, and fiber curl distributions on the quality potential of eucalypt fibers were evaluated. Fiber curl and fiber wall thickness based parameters were found to have a high potential for evaluation of eucalypt fiber quality. The variations in technical properties of paper were explained with differences in fiber wall thickness and fiber curl distributions. When the model was tested against industrial long fiber pulps, a further modification for fiber length was needed. The Page tensile strength model and the shear-lag theory were applied for comparison of the results obtained by the network activation model. With the approach presented in this article, the strength characteristics of hardwood and softwood pulps can be easily evaluated based on fiber geometry and water retention value.
©2012 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin Boston
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- Original Papers
- Novel paper sizing agents based on renewables. Part 5: characterization of maleated oleates by ozonolysis
- Polythiophene-cellulose composites: synthesis, optical properties and homogeneous oxidative co-polymerization
- The influence of extended mercerization on some properties of carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC)
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- Changes in chemistry, color, dimensional stability and fungal resistance of Pinus radiata D. Don wood with oil heat-treatment
- Improvement of dimensional stability of wood via combination treatment: swelling with maleic anhydride and grafting with glycidyl methacrylate and methyl methacrylate
- Synthesis and properties of resol-type phenol-formaldehyde resins prepared from H2SO4- and HCl-catalyzed phenol-liquefied Cryptomeria japonica wood
- Tack and shear strength of hybrid adhesive systems made of phenol-formaldehyde, dextrin and fish glue, and acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive
- Properties of thermally modified medium-density fibreboards
- Carbonaceous structural changes of wood induced by microwave irradiation
- Development of DNA-based methods to identify CITES-protected timber species: a case study in the Meliaceae family
- Fungal biodegradation of genetically modified and lignin-altered quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.)
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- 10.1515/HF.2011.185
