Design for minimizing fracture risk of all-ceramic cantilever dental bridge

Issue title: Frontiers in Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology – Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology, 18–21 August 2015, Shanghai, China

Guest editors: Feng Liu, Dong-Hoon Lee, Ricardo Lagoa and Sandeep Kumar

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Zhang, Zhongpu^a | Zhou, Shiwei^b | Li, Eric^a | Li, Wei^a | Swain, Michael V.^c | Li, Qing^{a; *}

Affiliations: [a] School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia | [b] Centre for Innovative Structures and Materials, School of Civil, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, RMIT University, GPO Box 2476, Melbourne 3001, Australia | [c] Disciplines of Biomaterials, Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia

Correspondence: [*] Address for correspondence: Qing Li, School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. Tel.: 612-93518607; Fax: 612-93517060; E-mail: qing.li@sydney.edu.au.

Keywords: Fixed partial dentures (FPDs), cantilever bridge, topology optimization, Extended Finite Element Method (XFEM), fracture mechanics

DOI: 10.3233/BME-151285

Journal: Bio-Medical Materials and Engineering, vol. 26, no. s1, pp. S19-S25, 2015