[Studies on Au-Ag-Pd-Cu alloys. (Part 3) Effects of additional elements to Au-Ag-Pd-Cu alloys (author's transl)].

Abstract

In the previous papers, the author pointed out that alloys containing 30 wt% Au, 15-25 wt% Pd and Cu were more favourable for Au-Ag-Pd-Cu quarternary dental alloys. In this paper, the experiments were carried out to find the effects of additional elements and so, Pt, Ir, Os, W, Mo, Cr, Mn, Co, Zn, In, Sn and Si were added to 30 wt% Au-30 wt% Ag-20 wt% Pd-20 wt% Cu alloys ranging 0.1 wt% to 2.0 wt% respectively. Then, tensile strength, elongation, hardness, corrosion resistivity and porosity ratio were tested on these specimen. Results were as follows. 1) The addition of 0.2 wt% Ir, 0.2 wt% Os and 1.0 wt% Co were comparatively effective for the fineness of grain sizes, elongation and tensile strength. 2) The addition of 0.2 wt% W, 1.0 wt% Mo and 0.2 wt% Si showed respectively bad effect for porosities or mechanical properties. 3) The addition of 1.0 wt% Cr, 2.0 wt% Mn, 1.0 wt% Co, 2.0 wt% Zn and 2.0 wt% In were good for the decrease of porosities respectively and showed that the porosity ratio was lower than 0.2%. 4) The additions of 2.0 wt% Zn-1.0 wt% Pt-0.5 wt% Co to Au-Ag-Pd-Cu alloy was especially good and showed 80 kg/mm2 of tensile strength, 5.1% of elongation, 249 of Vicker's hardness number and 0.4% of porosity ratio.