Article ID: | iaor19981405 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 80 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 68 |
End Page Number: | 76 |
Publication Date: | Jan 1995 |
Journal: | European Journal of Operational Research |
Authors: | Lee S.M., Chen C.S., Shen Q.S. |
Keywords: | containers, packing |
This paper considers the problem of loading containers with cartons of non-uniform size and presents an analytical model to capture the mathematical essence of the problem. The container loading problem is formulated as a zero-one mixed integer programming model. It includes the consideration of multiple containers, multiple carton sizes, carton orientations, and the overlapping of cartons in a container. This model is then extended to formulate some special container loading problems. Numerical examples are used to validate the model.