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The type of base material, such as particleboard or MDF,
can also affect the strength of the corner joints. The density
and gradation of the materials used in furniture can significantly
affect the joint strength.

Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), PVC, melamine, and
wood veneers are commonly used for edgebanding. ABS
is known for their impact resistance, durability, and overall
appearance.
PVC edgebanding is manufactured using high-impact of the edgebanding material can influence the bending and
modifiers that provide excellent machinability and impact tensile strength of the particleboard, which in turn can affect
resistance. Melamine-impregnated paper is absorbed with the quality of different glued joints.
resin and covered with a lacquer surface, resulting in a high Different methods can be found in the literature to investigate
strength and resistance to impacts, scratches, and abrasion. edge bonding quality: from a pull-off test in accordance with

Wood veneer edgebanding is performed on slices of EN ISO 4624:2017 to measure the force required to detach
real wood, allowing it to be painted or varnished to match the edgeband from the wood-based panel Džinčić and Palija
other furniture parts. Each material has unique properties or EN 28510-1:2014, which involves peeling of glued flexible
and advantages, making it suitable for different applications and rigid specimens together at an angle of 90°; or EN
in edgebanding. 311:2004 standard, which, among others, specifies assessing
the surface soundness of coated wood-based panels and
Effects Of Edgebanding uncoated particle boards, used to determine the adhesion

Edgebanding, particularly melamine, has been found to improve of the edgebanding to the particleboard samples; and up to
the strength of corner joints in furniture, particularly in tension the test on the peel strength of PVC edgebands on curved
and compression tests. edge parts in accordance with Chinese standard QB/T3655.
This improvement in strength is further enhanced when
using coated MDF with edgebanding because it can increase Influence Of Glue Type
the load-bearing capacity and service life of cabinets. The type of glue used in furniture construction significantly
The use of rebated and covered edges in case furniture affects the strength and durability of joints. Different types of
can further enhance the tension and compressive strength glue have different adhesive properties and bonding strengths,
of corner joints. However, in their research on corner joints which can affect joints of different edgeband material and/or

constructed with wood biscuits, found that the strength of overall furniture joint performance.
corner joints was primarily derived from the edge gluing of Altinok et al. found that the combined use of dowel and
the face and butt member rather than the glued biscuits. spline joints with polyvinyl acetate (PVAC) glue resulted in
Tankut and Tankut found that melamine-edgebanding the highest tension strength in the corner joints. Tankut and
material provided better structural integration and higher Tankut further emphasised the importance of the glue type,
strength compared to PVC and wood-veneer edgebanding with PVAC adhesive leading to higher diagonal tension and
materials, with the positive role of its 0.4 mm edgebanding compression strength in case-type furniture corner joints.

on 18 mm particleboard of corner joints in case furniture. Dizel and Uzun investigated the gluing of a wooden edge
Miškinytė and Juknelevičius found that the type and thickness strip to the edge of a particleboard and found that the use