Experimental and numerical studies of creasing of paperboard

A laboratory creasing device to capture the most important properties of a commercial rotary creasing tool was designed. Finite element analysis of the creasing of a multiply paperboard in the laboratory crease device was presented. The multiply paperboard was modeled as a multilayered structure with cohesive softening interface model connecting the paperboard plies. The paperboard plies were modeled by an anisotropic elastic–plastic material model. The purpose of the analysis of the laboratory creasing device was to present material models that represent paperboard, and to investigate how well the analysis captured the multiply paperboard behavior during laboratory creasing. And to increase the understanding of what multiply paperboard properties that influence the laboratory crease operation. The result of the simulations showed very good correlations with the experimental obtained results. The results indicated that the paperboard properties that have the most influence is the out-of-plane shear, out-of-plane compression and the friction between the laboratory creasing device and the paperboard.