Effect of property gradients on enamel fracture in human molar teeth

Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

Volumn 15, Issue , 2012, Pages 121-130

  Barani, Amir ^a   Bush, Mark B ^a   Lawn, Brian R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Enamel; Longitudinal cracks; Property gradients; Teeth; XFEM

Indexed keywords

APPLIED LOADS; CRACK FRONTS; CRITICAL LOAD; ENAMEL SURFACE; EXTENDED FINITE ELEMENTS; GROWTH HISTORY; HUMAN MOLAR TEETH; HUMAN MOLARS; INNER SURFACES; LITERATURE DATA; LONGITUDINAL CRACKS; OCCLUSAL LOADING; OUTER SURFACE; PIECE-WISE; PROPERTY GRADIENTS; TEETH; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; XFEM;

CRACKS; ENAMELS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE;

TOOTH ENAMEL;

ARTICLE; DENTIN; ENAMEL; ENAMEL FRACTURE; EXTENDED FINITE ELEMENT MODELING; HUMAN; LOADING TEST; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLAR TOOTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; TOOTH FRACTURE;

DENTAL ENAMEL; ELASTIC MODULUS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MOLAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84870169966     PISSN: 17516161     EISSN: 18780180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2012.06.014     Document Type: Article

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