Ductility and structure of some cobalt-base dental casting alloys
Håkon Herø, Morten Syverud, Jon Gjönnes and Jens Anton Horst | July 5th 1984
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The shape of the clasps on removable partial dentures often has to be adjusted by bending. Occasionally they fracture during the small plastic deformation that takes place during the adjustment. The tendency to brittle failure of three Co-Cr-Mo alloys for prosthetic use with different carbon and chromium contents was investigated by tensile testing