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TAPPI T273
- Wet ZeroTensile Strength of Pulp
- standard by Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry,
- Publisher: TAPPI
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This method is used to provide a quick, reliable means to measure the average wet zero-span tensile strength of a random, standard aggregate of pulp fibers. The standard aggregate is produced by making a handsheet (see TAPPI T 205 Forming Handsheets for Physical Tests of Pulp) from any papermaking pulp.The test requires an apparatus comprised of two adjacent, precisely aligned clamping jaws in initial intimate contact (zero-span), which can be made to reliably and reproducibility exert a very high, optimum and uniform clamping pressure on fibers in a specified test specimen after they have been wetted using a defined procedure. While firmly clamping the wetted fibers, the clamps must be able to separate at a defined uniform rate of loading until the sample fails. The failure point under the test conditions is called the wet zero-span tensile strength.The test is most commonly used to assess the retention of average individual fiber strength of the pulp through chemical processing in pulping and bleaching.