Proposal of optimization guidelines of the buffer packaging design considered the distribution environment dependence of fruit properties

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25660196
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Agricultural environmental engineering/Agricultural information engineering
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: YASUNAGA Eriko 東京大学, 農学生命科学研究科, 准教授 (00380543)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): OZAKI Shingo 横浜国立大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 准教授 (20408727) ; TAKATA Daisuke 東京大学, 大学院農学生命科学研究科, 助教 (80456178)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 品質保持技術 / フードチェーン / シミュレーション工学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

First, we have proposed the new method to evaluate damage of fruit during transportation, based on the field measurement, the laboratory experiment, and the numerical simulation. The proposed method is adopted the time- and temperature-dependent modeling of elasticity. We then conducted the parametric studies with respect to the effect of distribution time, temperature, varieties of peach, and stiffness of fruit cap on the energy absorption. The proposed method might enable us to optimize the property of the energy absorber packing, including the fruit cap and the corrugated box.

Free Research Field

ポストハーベスト工学