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Title:	Aspects of fiber morphology affecting properties of handsheets made from loblolly pine refiner groundwood
Author(s):	McMillin, Charles W.
Date:	1969
Source:	Wood Science and Technology, Vol. 3: 139-149
Description:	In Pinus taeda L., burst, breaking length, and sheet density were improved by using fiber refined from wood having long, narrow-diameter tracheids with thick walls. Only narrow-diameter teacheids with thick walls were required to improve tear factor. A theoretical stress analysis revealed that thick-walled cells of small outside diameter fail by diagonal tension or parallel shear, depending on the fibril angle, while under torsional stress during refining. Such failures result in ribbon-like fragments which research elsewhere has demonstrated to provide the coherence necessary for strength development in mechanical pulps. In contrast, thin-walled cells of small outside diameter fail by diagonal compression and yield few ribbons.
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