Mathematical Models for Dental Materials Research

Editor(s):

• AlexFok
• HooiPinChew

Description:

This book presents a mechanistic approach—mathematical modeling—for carrying out dental materials research. This approach allows researchers to go beyond the null hypothesis and obtain a solution that is more general and therefore predictive for conditions other than those considered in a study. Hence it can be used either on its own or to complement the commonly used statistical approach.
Through a series of practical problems with wide-ranging application, the reader will be guided on:

• How to construct a mathematical model for the behavior of dental materials by making informed assumptions of the physical, chemical, or mechanical situation
• How to simplify the model by making suitable simplifications
• How to calibrate the model by calculating the values of key parameters using experimental results
• How to refine the model when there are discrepancies between predictions and experiments

ISBN: 978-3-030-37848-6
e-Book ISBN: 978-3-030-37849-3
Published Date: 2020
Page Count:  87 , File Size: 3 Mb