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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Comput Methods Biomech Biomed Engin. 2021 Jul 22;25(4):412–423. doi: 10.1080/10255842.2021.1955869

Table 3.

Constants for thermal contraction of dental ceramics (αg =a + bT + cT2, αl = d + eT).

Materials αe (mm/mm°C)
 αL (mm/mm°C)
a(1/°C)
10−6 		b(1/°C)2
10−9 		c(1/°C)3
10−12 		R2 d(1/°C)
10−4 		e(1/°C)2
10−7
PoM 10.26 6.315 −2.49 0.997 −0.5765 1.19
Metal 10.525 5.382 1.67 0.978 NA NA
e.max Ceram 8.3111 2.373 2.1 0.983 −0.6238 1.507
e.max CAD 8.153 3.822 1.9 0.995 −0.3113 0.645