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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Mech Behav Biomed Mater. 2018 Mar 21;82:202–209. doi: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2018.03.020

Table 2.

Constants for thermal contraction coefficients for Y-TZP, VM9 and LAVA Ceram. The constants a, b and c are obtained from the regression analysis. All data is measured by the Orton Materials Testing & Research Center through a paid service.

Ceramics a b c d e
VM9 8.0052E-06 4.7623E-09 −2.2062E–12 −2.7782E–4 5.0500E–7
LAVA Ceram 9.2057E-06 2.0210E-09 −8.1870E–13 −7.1464E-5 1.6134E–7
Y-TZP 1.0614E-06 −1.5188E-08 1.2092E–11 0 0