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Facilities

Paper Testing

 

Conditioning at different and/or under changing atmospheres

Physical properties

  • Thickness

  • Grammage

  • Roughness (Bendtsen)

 

Roughness (Bendtsen)

 

Strength properties

  • Tensile properties (constant rate of loading or constant rate of elongation)

  • Tensile energy absorption (TEA)

  • Tearing resistance (Elmendorff)

  • Bursting strength

  • Internal (Z) bond

  • Zero-span breaking length

 

 

Tensile

 

 

Bursting strength

Folding, bending and compression properties

  • Compressive strength (short span test)

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SCT

 

Permeability and absorption properties

  • Water absorption (Cobb)

  • Air permeability (Bendtsen)

 

Cobb

 

Optical properties

  • Diffuse blue reflectance factor (ISO brightness)

  • Opacity

  • Scattering coefficient

  • Absorption coefficient

  • Colour

 

Brightness