Influence of different surface treatments on the fracture toughness of a commercial ZTA dental ceramic

The objective of this study was to investigate how mechanical surface treatments performed for removal of excess of molten glass, influence the fracture toughness of a dental zirconia toughened alumina (In-Ceram® Zirconia). Infiltrated ZTA disks were submitted to three different surface treatments (...

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Published in:	Materials Research
Main Authors:	Flavio Teixeira da Silva, Marcio Alessandro Negrelly Zacché, Helio Salim de Amorim
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Associação Brasileira de Metalurgia e Materiais (ABM); Associação Brasileira de Cerâmica (ABC); Associação Brasileira de Polímeros (ABPol) 2007-03-01
Subjects:	dental ceramic fracture toughness transformation toughening Weibull distribution
Online Access:	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-14392007000100014