Effect of Sliding Movement Mechanism on Contact Wear Behavior of Composite Materials in Simulation of Oral Environment

• Published in: Journal of bio- and tribo-corrosion Vol. 5; no. 3; pp. 1 - 9
• Main Author: Yilmaz, Efe Çetin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01-09-2019; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Biomaterials; Chemistry and Materials Science; Chewing; Composite materials; Corrosion; Corrosion and Coatings; Dental materials; Diamond pyramid hardness; Electronics; Gold; In vitro methods and tests; Mastication; Materials Science; Motional resistance; Profilometers; Scanning electron microscopy; Sliding contact; Solid Mechanics; Talc; Tribology; Ultrasonic testing; Water hardness; Wear mechanisms; Wear resistance; Wear tests; Sliding movement; Volume loss; Composite; Simulation of mouth motion; Wear
• ISSN: 2198-4220; 2198-4239
• DOI: 10.1007/s40735-019-0258-0

The aim of this study was to examine the effect of the sliding motion mechanism on contact-wear resistance of composite materials under in vitro chewing test process. In the conditions recommended by the manufacturer, composite test specimens (P60, Cleafil AP-X, Grandio, Heliomolar, Supreme, and Z250) were produced from each composite material. All test specimens were kept in pure water for at least 1-week period and Vickers hardness was determined before contact wear tests. Then contact wear tests were performed using a chewing simulation (50 N, 240.000 chewing cycles 1.2 Hz and 37 °C temperature). Each contact wear test, steatite ball with a diameter of 6 mm was used as antagonist material. Half of the specimens of each test group were loaded with a sliding movement of 0.7 mm, the other half remaining without sliding movement. The mean volume loss of all specimens after the contact wear tests was determined with use 3D profilometer. In addition to a random specimen was selected from each test group and scanning electron microscope (SEM) images were taken for analysis of wear tracks. All composite materials showed significantly more volume loss when it occurred sliding movement than without sliding movement contact wear tests. It can be suggested in this work that the larger monomer and harder surface glass structure contained in the composite material cause more volume loss when it occurred during sliding contact wear mechanism.