Available online at www.sciencedirect.com journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/dental Fatigue analysis of restored teeth longitudinally cracked under cyclic loading Fei Lin a , Ronald Ordinola-Zapata c , Ning Ye b,d , Haiping Xu e , Alex S.L. Fok b, ⁎ a Department of Cariology and Endodontology, Peking University School and Hospital of Stomatology, Beijing 100081, China b Minnesota Dental Research Center for Biomaterials and Biomechanics, School of Dentistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA c Division of Endodontics, Department of Restorative Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA d Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA e Department of Stomatology, Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266003, China a r t i c l e info Article history: Received 7 August 2021 Received in revised form 10 November 2021 Accepted 8 December 2021 Keywords: Longitudinal crack Cyclic loading Fatigue analysis Finite element analysis Debonding abstract Objective: To investigate the fatigue behavior of restored teeth, in particular the mechan- isms of longitudinal dentinal cracking under cyclic mechanical loading, using finite ele- ment analysis (FEA) and the stress-life (S-N) approach. Methods: Ten root-filled premolars restored with resin composites were subjected to step- stress cyclic loading to produce longitudinal cracks. Fracture loads and number of cycles completed at each load level were recorded. FEA was used to predict the stress amplitude of each component under the global cyclic load. Both intact and debonded conditions were considered for the dentin-composite interface in the FEA. The predicted stress con- centrations were compared with the fracture patterns to help elucidate the failure me- chanisms. The S-N approach was further used to predict the lifetimes of the different components in the restored teeth. Cumulative fatigue damage was represented by the sum of the fractions of life spent under the different stress amplitudes. Results: Longitudinal cracks were seen in ~50% of the samples with a mean fracture load of 770 ± 45 N and a mean number of cycles to failure of 32,297 ± 12,624. The longitudinal dentinal cracks seemed to start near the line angle of the cavity, and propagated long- itudinally towards the root. The sum of fractions of life spent for the dentin-composite interface exceeded 1 after ~7000 cycles when that for dentin was much lower than 1, in- dicating that interfacial debonding would occur prior to dentin fracture. This was sup- ported by micro-CT images showing widened interfacial space in the cracked samples. In the debonded tooth, FEA showed dentinal stress concentrations at the gingival wall of the https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dental.2021.12.005 0109-5641/© 2021 The Academy of Dental Materials. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. ]] ]] ]]]]]] ⁎ Correspondence to: Minnesota Dental Research Center for Biomaterials and Biomechanics, 16-212 Moos Health Science Tower, 515 Delaware Street S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. E-mail address: [email protected] (A.S.L. Fok). dental materials 38 (2022) 204–213
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