scholarly journals Graded Ultra-Translucent Zirconia (5Y-PSZ) for Strength and Functionalities

2018 ◽  
Vol 97 (11) ◽  
pp. 1222-1228 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Mao ◽  
M.R. Kaizer ◽  
M. Zhao ◽  
B. Guo ◽  
Y.F. Song ◽  
...  

Ultra-translucent zirconias are drawing immense attention due to their fascinating esthetic appearance. However, the high translucency came at the expense of diminishing strength along with the reduced ability of transformation toughening due to the increased cubic zirconia content. We aim to address these issues by infiltrating glass on the surface of an ultra-translucent zirconia (5Y-PSZ). Glasses of different shades can be used and the resulting graded glass/zirconia layer is expected to improve the material’s flexural strength without compromising its esthetics. We also aim to elucidate how clinically relevant surface treatments—namely, air abrasion, glazing, or polishing—affect the fracture resistance of these zirconias with a high cubic content. All surface treatments were performed on bar-shaped (2 × 3 × 25 mm3) and plate-shaped (12 × 12 × 1 mm3) specimens, which were then subjected to a 4-point bending test and translucency measurements, respectively. 5Y-PSZ proved to be significantly more translucent than 3Y-TZP but also much weaker. Our hypothesis was accepted, as the strength of the glass-infiltrated ultra-translucent 5Y-PSZ (582 ± 20 MPa) is over 70% higher than its uninfiltrated counterpart (324 ± 57 MPa). Its strength is also over 25% higher than the highly polished 5Y-PSZ (467 ± 38 MPa). In addition, the translucency of 5Y-PSZ (translucency parameter [ TP] = 34, contrast ratio [ CR] = 0.31) is not affected by glass infiltration ( TP = 34, CR = 0.32) when the residual surface glass is removed by gentle polishing using 6- and then 3-µm diamond grits. Finally, both air abrasion and the presence of a glaze layer on the tensile surface decreased flexural strength significantly, being 274 ± 55 and 211 ± 21 MPa, respectively. With a combined high strength and translucency, the newly developed glass-infiltrated 5Y-PSZ may be considered a suitable material for next-generation, damage-resistant, and esthetic dental restorations.

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hattanas Kumchai ◽  
Patrapan Juntavee ◽  
Arthur F. Sun ◽  
Dan Nathanson

Objective. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of glazing on flexural strength of highly translucent zirconia materials. Materials and Methods. Specimens of three brands of zirconia bars (Prettau Zirconia, Zirkonzahn; inCoris TZI, Sirona; and Zirlux FC, Pentron Ceramics) were prepared and polished according to manufacturers’ instructions. Final specimen dimensions were 20 × 4 × 2 mm. The specimens from each brand were divided into 3 groups (N = 10): control, heat-treated, and glazed. Heat-treated specimens were fired without the application of the glaze material. The glaze material was applied to the glazed specimens before being fired. A three-point bending test (15 mm span) was performed in an Instron universal testing machine (ISO 6872). Data were analyzed by ANOVA and Tukey’s HSD post hoc test (α = 0.05). Results. Two-way ANOVA showed a significant influence of surface treatments on flexural strength of zirconia materials (P≤0.05). There was no significant difference in flexural strength among the different brands of highly translucent zirconia (P≥0.05). Tukey’s HSD post hoc test showed that specimens in the “glazed” group had significantly lower flexural strength than the control and heat-treated groups (P≤0.05). Conclusion. Within the limitations of the study, external glazing decreased the flexural strength of highly translucent zirconia.


2012 ◽  
Vol 512-515 ◽  
pp. 816-819 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying Chun Shan ◽  
Guang Wang ◽  
Hui Ye ◽  
Xiao Guang Han ◽  
Jiu Jun Xu ◽  
...  

Dense Y3+-dopted α-SiAlON/BN composition ceramics was fabricated by hot pressing at 1900 °C for 60 min, and flextural strength at room and 1000 °C was investigated through three-point bending test. The results show that h-BN contribute to the densification of powder body, but h-BN have little affect on the key temperature region of sintering densification of α-SiAlON ceramics. When content of BN is lower, which didn’t affect on the phase transformation of α-SiAlON, but when content of BN is higher, besides of major phase α-SiAlON, a little of β-SiAlON was also formed. For the α-SiAlON/BN composite ceramics content of 20 wt.% h-BN, the higer flexural strength( room-temperature and 1000 °C) were abtained, the formation of β-SiAlON should be an important resonon for the higher strentgh, more important is , whose flexural strength at 1000 °C is higher 50 MPa than at room temperature, the differnce of thermal properties between SiAlON and BN should contribute to the improve of high-temperature flextural strength.


2020 ◽  
Vol 240 ◽  
pp. 117681
Author(s):  
Mehran Aziminezhad ◽  
Sahand Mardi ◽  
Pouria Hajikarimi ◽  
Fereidoon Moghadas Nejad ◽  
Amir H. Gandomi

2021 ◽  
pp. 152808372110003
Author(s):  
M Atta ◽  
A Abu-Sinna ◽  
S Mousa ◽  
HEM Sallam ◽  
AA Abd-Elhady

The bending test is one of the most important tests that demonstrates the advantages of functional gradient (FGM) materials, thanks to the stress gradient across the specimen depth. In this research, the flexural response of functionally graded polymeric composite material (FGM) is investigated both experimentally and numerically. Fabricated by a hand lay-up manufacturing technique, the unidirectional glass fiber reinforced epoxy composite composed of ten layers is used in the present investigation. A 3-D finite element simulation is used to predict the flexural strength based on Hashin’s failure criterion. To produce ten layers of FGM beams with different patterns, the fiber volume fraction ( Vf%) ranges from 10% to 50%. A comparison between FGM beams and conventional composite beams having the same average Vf% is made. The experimental results show that the failure of the FGM beams under three points bending loading (3PB) test is initiated from the tensioned layers, and spread to the upper layer. The spreading is followed by delamination accompanied by shear failures. Finally, the FGM beams fail due to crushing in the compression zone. Furthermore, the delamination failure between the layers has a major effect on the rapidity of the final failure of the FGM beams. The present numerical results show that the gradient pattern of FGM beams is a critical parameter for improving their flexural behavior. Otherwise, Vf% of the outer layers of the FGM beams, i.e. Vf% = 30, 40, or 50%, is responsible for improving their flexural strength.


Materials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (10) ◽  
pp. 2602
Author(s):  
Huaqiao Wang ◽  
Jihong Chen ◽  
Zhichao Fan ◽  
Jun Xiao ◽  
Xianfeng Wang

Automated fiber placement (AFP) has been widely used as an advanced manufacturing technology for large and complex composite parts and the trajectory planning of the laying path is the primary task of AFP technology. Proposed in this paper is an experimental study on the effect of several different path planning placements on the mechanical behavior of laminated materials. The prepreg selected for the experiment was high-strength toughened epoxy resin T300 carbon fiber prepreg UH3033-150. The composite laminates with variable angles were prepared by an eight-tow seven-axis linkage laying machine. After the curing process, the composite laminates were conducted by tensile and bending test separately. The test results show that there exists an optimal planning path among these for which the tensile strength of the laminated specimens decreases slightly by only 3.889%, while the bending strength increases greatly by 16.68%. It can be found that for the specific planning path placement, the bending strength of the composite laminates is significantly improved regardless of the little difference in tensile strength, which shows the importance of path planning and this may be used as a guideline for future AFP process.


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 144
Author(s):  
Klaudio Bari ◽  
Thozhuvur Govindaraman Loganathan

The research aim is to investigate the performance of novel enriched mineral fibres (Filava) in polysiloxane SLIRES H62 resin. Specimens were manufactured using a vacuum bagging process and oven cured at 250 °C. Specimens were prepared for flexural testing according to BS EN ISO 14125:1998 to obtain flexural strength, modulus, and elongation. The mechanical strength was compared to similar composites, with the aim of determining composite performance index. The flexural modulus (9.7 GPa), flexural strength (83 MPa), and flexural strain (2.9%) were obtained from a three-point bending test. In addition, the study investigates the thermal properties of the composite using a state-of-art Zwick Roell high temperature tensile rig. The results showed Filava/Polysiloxane Composites had an ultimate tensile strength 400 MPa, Young’s modulus 16 GPa and strain 2.5% at 1000 °C, and no smoke and ash were observed during pyrolysis. Ongoing research is currently taking place to use Filava-H62 in fire-retardant enclosure for lithium-ferro-phosphate Batteries used in electric trucks.


2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 269-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bogna Stawarczyk ◽  
Mutlu Özcan ◽  
Lubica Hallmann ◽  
Andreas Ender ◽  
Albert Mehl ◽  
...  

2010 ◽  
Vol 177 ◽  
pp. 447-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Zhang ◽  
Yi Wen Hu ◽  
Yin Wu ◽  
Wen Jie Si

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the crystal phase formation behavior and its influence on the mechanical properties of LiO2-SiO2-P2O5 glass-ceramics system. High temperature XRD was used to analyze the crystal phase formation in situ. The crystalline phases in the material both before and after heat-treatment were also analyzed. The flexural strength was measured by three-point bending test according to ISO 6872:2008(E). The SEM analysis showed that the high strength of the glass-ceramics is attributed to the continuous interlocking microstructure with fine lithium disilicate crystallines.


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