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Surface characterization of paper and paperboard using a stylus contact method

  • Young Chan Ko , Lili Melani , Na Young Park and Hyoung Jin Kim EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: October 30, 2019
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Abstract

Surface characterization is important and has many applications in the paper industry. Surface characterization requires both surface roughness and surface friction. The relationship between the two has not been fully established for paper and paperboard. It has been a common practice that only the average property and the standard deviation with the coefficient of variation (COV) are reported for surface roughness and friction measurements. This practice, however, provides few information on surface structure and can lead to wrong judgments because two samples having the same average and the COV can have different physical properties. To avoid such mistake, a new surface characterization method has been developed. To this end, surface roughness- and friction-profiles have been obtained using a latest version of Kawabata surface tester (Model: KES-SESRU, Kato Tech, Kyoto Japan). This new version uses the same stylus for both measuring surface roughness and friction under the same operating conditions. It was found that a correlation between the surface roughness and surface friction was very low. This indicates that they should be independent of each other. Therefore, both should be determined for surface characterization.

Award Identifier / Grant number: 20002396

Funding statement: We acknowledge the financial support from the Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology, Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, Republic of Korea (Project No. 20002396).

  1. Conflict of interest: The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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Received: 2019-01-14
Accepted: 2019-08-27
Published Online: 2019-10-30
Published in Print: 2020-03-26

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