I work stacking grocery pallets for a living. The rule is that cardboard cases/trays of cans make the best base for stacks and should always go on the bottom of pallets, and cardboard boxes, even dense and heavy ones, should go on top of the can layers.
What I’m after is the basic physics of why trays of cans are so much more stable than cardboard boxes. Thanks to anyone who responds!
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A cardboard box only holds the roof up from the walls. Whereas the stacked cans hold up the roof from the walls of every can. Many more walls of can and metal strength.
The cans hold up from all the area including it’s center. The cardboard boxes have a lifting weak point in it’s center
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