A multi-station machine for the fatigue testing of denture base materials.

A multi-station machine has been designed and built to determine the resistance to fatigue failure of denture base materials. The machine has enabled complete S-N curves to be plotted for conventional and reinforced denture base materials involving many megacycles of operation. The resistance to fatigue failure of conventional denture base polymers is similar to that of 'Perspex'; that of PMMA reinforced with carbon fibre is of an order of magnitude greater.