For practical packaging applications the strength and stability of boxes made from corrugated board are of great importance. Stacking boxes on top of each other places the highest load on the box at the bottom, which has to possess sufficient box compression strength for withstanding this load without collapsing. A lasting contribution for the design of corrugated board containers is the design formula proposed by McKee [5]. Attempts for a more accurate prediction of the compression strength of corrugated containers comprise finite element simulations of the whole box (including closure fins) using shell
elements that exhibit the same effective orthotropic stiffness as the actual corrugated board, compare [6] and [7]. In [6] a good agreement between simulation results and experimental data was obtained for both the initial buckling load and the limit load, the latter being approximately twice as high as the former for the considered type of box.
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