Characteristics of Domestic Distribution Environment for Parcel Delivery Service of Fruits

국내 과실의 택배 유통환경 특성

  • Jung, Hyun Mo (Dept. of Digital Contents Design, Kyongbuk Science College) ;
  • Kim, Su Il (Kim Su Il Packaging Development Institute)
  • 정현모 (경북과학대학교 디지털컨텐츠디자인과) ;
  • 김수일 (김수일포장개발연구소)
  • Published : 2015.08.31

Abstract

Agricultural products packaged for transportation are put in the various dangerous environments owing to the damage factors like vibration, shock, compression, climate etc. under the distribution process. On fruits packaging for transportation, especially, the shock and vibration is considered as the most important damage factors. A major cause of shock damage to fruits is drops during manual handling. Especially, the damages of fruits during the parcel delivery service are very serious. The parcel delivery services of fruits are increasing and contribute to increasing of farm house earning. Also, the freight vehicle is mostly used to transport the fruits. Shock and impact generated by the freight vehicle may give serious damage to fruits. The optimum packaging design of parcel delivery service of fruits during transportation is required to reduce the fruits damages. In order to design the packaging system for parcel delivery service of fruits considering the transportation environment, the comprehension of characteristics for vibration and shock generated by manual handling and acting on transportation vehicles under various road conditions and loading methods is required. This research was performed to analyze the shock characteristics, acceleration level and power spectral density (PSD) during the parcel delivery service of fruits. The overall level of recommended PSD profile in a specific transportation of parcel delivery service for fruits was $0.63G_{rms}$.

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