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Machine direction |
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Properties |
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Mechanical properties |
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Uncountable |
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Grain direction |
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In the machine direction the paper will have superior tensile strength, stiffness and pick resistance whilst in the cross direction it will have greater resistance to tear alongside a greater tendency to dimensional instability in the presence of moisture. |
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EN 29 |
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In the corpus we have noticed the use of the variant “MD”. For example:
“Paper calendering is a continuous, rolling compression process, with scarcely any extrusion because the material is porous. (Nevertheless, paper dimensions in the MD and CD do change by fractions of 1%, and heavy calendering can produce wrinkles presumably because of MD and CD components of deformation).” (EN 48) |
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