The time dependent mechanical properties of bovine enamel

M. C. Chuang, G. W. Ruan, N. S. Liou, Y. R. Jeng

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Abstract

This work investigated the time dependent mechanical properties of bovine enamel. The cubic specimens of enamel were prepared from bovine incisors and the ramp-hold compression tests were performed to acquire the stress-time and strain-time relation of enamel under compress load. In this study, enamel was considered as linear viscoelatic material. The long-term elastic modulus of enamel was evaluated from the stress and strain relations at the end of ramp-hold tests and the relaxation behaviour of enamel was estimated from the normalized stress-time curves of ramp-hold tests. The relaxation coefficients and characteristic times of linear viscoelastic model were obtained by using iterative inverse finite element method. The results show that a linear viscoelastic model with 3 relaxation time constants can well describe the time dependent behaviour of bovine enamel under uni-axial compression load.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMechanics of Biological Systems and Materials - Proceedings of the 2012 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics
Pages183-187
Number of pages5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Event2012 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics - Costa Mesa, CA, United States
Duration: 2012 Jun 112012 Jun 14

Publication series

NameConference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series
Volume5
ISSN (Print)2191-5644
ISSN (Electronic)2191-5652

Conference

Conference2012 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityCosta Mesa, CA
Period12-06-1112-06-14

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Engineering
  • Computational Mechanics
  • Mechanical Engineering

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