Study on damping characteristic of honeycomb paperboard and vibration reduction mechanism of packaging system

Honeycomb paperboard has been widely used in transportation and packaging of electronic instruments and furniture owing to the advantages of light weight, good compression resistance, environmental friendliness, and easy degradation. As a common cushioning material in transportation, it is worth studying the damping characteristic and vibration reduction mechanism of honeycomb paperboard. Based on the basic principles of vibration mechanics, the damping of honeycomb paperboard was proposed. Then the influences of cell length, paperboard thickness, grammage of core paper, and the honeycomb structures with face sheet or without face sheet on the damping characteristic of honeycomb paperboard were analyzed. Finally, the vibration reduction mechanism of packaging system with honeycomb paperboard and block was discussed briefly. The results show that the damping value of honeycomb paperboard decreases with the increase of cell length and paperboard thickness. The honeycomb paperboard with large grammage of core paper has high damping value, and yet paper honeycomb core structure without face sheet has poor damping capacity. What's more, the vibration reduction capacity of packaging system is influenced by the deformation and damping characteristic of honeycomb paperboard, among which material damping and structural damping contribute more, honeycomb deformation and air damping contribute less. The weight of block does not affect the damping characteristic of honeycomb paperboard, but affects the vibration reduction capacity of the whole system.