Evaluation of flexural strength of hipped and presintered zirconia using different estimation methods of Weibull statistics

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• 作者：Bogna Stawarczyk^a ; ^{bogna.stawarczyk@zzm.uzh.ch} ; Mutlu Ö ; zcan^a ; Albert Trottmann^a ; Christoph H.F. Hä ; mmerle^a ; Malgorzata Roos^b
• 关键词：Three-point flexural strength ; Zirconia ; Weibull modulus ; Estimation of Weibull statistics
• 刊名：Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：pc168_17516161
• 类别：ms
• 出版时间：June, 2012
• 卷：10
• 期：Complete
• 页码：227-234
• 文件大小：643 K

摘要

Objectives: This study determined the flexural strength of one hipped and eight presintered zirconia and evaluated the results using different estimation methods of Weibull statistics.

Materials and methods: Presintered zirconia specimens were prepared in white state and sintered according to each manufacturer鈥檚 instructions. One hipped zirconia acted as the control group. The specimens were loaded in a Universal Testing Machine (). Data were analysed using 鈥渘ormal鈥?(Levene test, one-way ANOVA, Scheff茅 test) and 鈥淲eibull distribution鈥?estimated by either Least Squares (LS) (mean (Excel) and median rank (MINITAB)), Maximum Likelihood (ML) (MINITAB) or ML (MINITAB) with a correction of (MLC) (alpha=0.05).

Results: According to normal and Weibull distribution (s), three-point flexural strength (MPa) of the hipped zirconia ( (1507; 1782), s(LS mean rank): 1772, s(LS median rank): 1751 (1619; 1894), s(ML): 1733 (1645; 1826) and s(MLC): (1625; 1848) showed significantly higher results compared to all other presintered zirconia groups (). The lowest mean and characteristic strength was observed with GC (, s(LS mean rank): 935, s(LS median rank): 935(868; 1007), s(ML): 932(875; 994) and s(MLC): (862; 1009)). The highest Weibull modulus estimated by LS for mean and median rank was observed with LZ (8.9 and 9.8(7.5; 12.9), respectively) and the lowest with ZE (5.1 and 5(3; 8.2), respectively). According to ML and MLC estimation, the control group showed the highest (10.1(6.6; 15.6), 9.2(5.8; 14.2), respectively), and CZ the lowest (5.6(3.8; 8.2), 5.0(3.2; 7.8), respectively) Weibull modulus. No differences in estimates of standard deviations of the normal distribution and the estimates of Weibull moduli for different estimation methods were found between all tested groups.

Conclusions: Flexural strength of the tested hipped zirconia was higher than those of presintered ones according to both normal and Weibull distribution. LS (median rank) and ML estimates can be compared by a global test and by means of 95%CI. For corrected ML estimates the 95%CI can be interpreted. Estimate calculations in Excel (LS, mean rank) provides information on 95%CI for the Weibull parameters.