You work at a cardboard box making company, and the formulation chemist has created a new pulp for making the cardboard used in the boxes. The pulp is cheaper, but when it is made into a standard cardboard box, the box permanently bends under much less weight than the prior pulp formulation. Assuming your boxes still needs to meet the same weight specifications as the previous pulp formulation, what would you do to determine if you could still save money? 1. If the same weight specification must be met, then it is impossible to save money with this new pulp formulation.
2. Measure the yield strength of the new cardboard, and then using the appropriate deformable bodies formulas, determine how much thinner the cardboard must be made. If the cost for using less of this cheaper pulp in the thinner boxes is still lower than the cost of using more of the more expensive pulp in the thicker boxes, then money can be saved.
3. Measure the ultimate tensile strength of the new cardboard, and then using the appropriate deformable bodies formulas, determine how much thicker the cardboard must be made. If the cost for using more of this cheaper pulp in the thicker boxes is still lower than the cost of using less of the more expensive pulp in the thinner boxes, then money can be saved.
4. Measure the stiffness of the new cardboard, and then using the appropriate deformable bodies formulas, determine how much thinner the cardboard must be made. If the cost for using less of this cheaper pulp in the thinner boxes is still lower than the cost of using more of the more expensive pulp in the thicker boxes, then money can be saved.
5. Measure the stiffness of the new cardboard, and then using the appropriate deformable bodies formulas, determine how much thicker the cardboard must be made. If the cost for using more of this cheaper pulp in the thicker boxes is still lower than the cost of using less of the more expensive pulp in the thinner boxes, then money can be saved.
6. Measure the ultimate tensile strength of the new cardboard, and then using the appropriate deformable bodies formulas, determine how much thinner the cardboard must be made. If the cost for using less of this cheaper pulp in the thinner boxes is still lower than the cost of using more of the more expensive pulp in the thicker boxes, then money can be saved.
7. Measure the yield strength of the new cardboard, and then using the appropriate deformable bodies formulas, determine how much thicker the cardboard must be made. If the cost for using more of this cheaper pulp in the thicker boxes is still lower than the cost of using less of the more expensive pulp in the thinner boxes, then money can be saved. 8. Since making the cardboard thinner will increase its weight capacity, you will save money regardless. No need to measure anything