Dental Materials
Volume 26, Issue 5 , Pages 483-490 , May 2010

Mechanical strength and subcritical crack growth under wet cyclic loading of glass-infiltrated dental ceramics

  • Susana M. Salazar Marocho

      Affiliations

    • Department of Dental Materials and Prosthodontics, São Paulo State University-UNESP, São Paulo, Brazil
    • ,
  • André R. Studart

      Affiliations

    • Complex Materials, Department of Materials, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
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  • Marco A. Bottino

      Affiliations

    • Department of Dental Materials and Prosthodontics, São Paulo State University-UNESP, São Paulo, Brazil
    • ,
  • Alvaro Della Bona

      Affiliations

    • Dental School, University of Passo Fundo, Passo Fundo, RS, Brazil
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Rua Uruguai 2001, 401, Passo Fundo, RS 99010-112, Brazil. Tel.: +55 54 3311 5142; fax: +55 54 3316 8403.

Received 24 August 2009 ,Revised 8 December 2009 ,Accepted 8 January 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.dental.2010.01.007

Dental Materials
Volume 26, Issue 5 , Pages 483-490 , May 2010

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