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Margin Failures in Crown-Like Brittle Structures: Off-Axis Loading

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Author(s)

Chris Ford, T Qasim, M T. Bush, X Z. Hu, Mahek Shah, Vibhu Saxena, Brian R. Lawn

Abstract

The effect of off-axis loading of compliant indenters on the initiation of cracks at the margins of dental crown-like dome structures consisting of glass shells back-filled with an epoxy resin is examined. As in previous studies on similar structures but with strictly axial loading, cracks can be made to initiate and propagate from the margins around the dome faces into a semi-lunar fracture pattern characteristic of some all-ceramic crown failures. In this study, balsa wood and teflon disk indenters are used to provide the off-axis loading, at 45o to the dome axis. The soft indenters, considered representative of food bolus, spread the contact at the top surface, suppressing otherwise dominant radial cracks that ordinarily initiate at the dome undersurface directly along the load axis beneath harder indenters. Finite element modeling is used to show that off-axis loading dramatically increases the tensile stresses at the near-side dome margin, strongly diminishing the loads required to generate the lunar fracture mode.
Citation
Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part B-Applied Biomaterials
Volume
85B

Keywords

all ceramic crowns, crown failure, lunar cracks, soft indenters, stress analysis

Citation

Ford, C. , Qasim, T. , Bush, M. , Hu, X. , Shah, M. , Saxena, V. and Lawn, B. (2007), Margin Failures in Crown-Like Brittle Structures: Off-Axis Loading, Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part B-Applied Biomaterials, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=851135 (Accessed March 29, 2024)
Created June 10, 2007, Updated October 12, 2021