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QuantumATK => General Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Inaoton on July 12, 2017, 07:09
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Sir
I calculated the elastic constants of a body-centered tetragonal system. The result is given below. Could yo please tell me how Young's Modulus and poisson's ratios for bct in three different axes is calculated? Could you give me any reference.
| Elastic Constants in GPa |
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| 75.09 44.35 42.51 0.00 0.00 -0.05 |
| 75.09 42.51 0.00 0.00 0.05 |
| 75.49 0.00 0.00 0.00 |
| 54.01 0.00 0.00 |
| 54.01 0.00 |
| 55.74 |
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| Elastic compliance in 1/GPa |
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| 0.02325 -0.00928 -0.00787 0.00000 0.00000 0.00003 |
| 0.02325 -0.00787 0.00000 0.00000 -0.00003 |
| 0.02211 0.00000 0.00000 -0.00000 |
| 0.01851 0.00000 0.00000 |
| 0.01851 0.00000 |
| 0.01794 |
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| Material properties calculated from the elastic constants: |
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| Moduli in units of GPa: |
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| Reuss Voigt Hill |
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| Bulk modulus: 53.8172 53.8218 53.8195 |
| Shear modulus: 27.8060 39.1720 33.4890 |
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| X Y Z |
| Young's modulus: 43.0016 43.0016 45.2336 |
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| XY XZ YZ |
| Poisson ratios: 0.3992 0.3559 0.3559 |
| YX ZX ZY |
| 0.3992 0.3383 0.3383 |
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Here are some relevant reference on the calculation of stress and related quantities:
O. H. Nielsen and Richard M. Martin "First-Principles Calculation of Stress" Phys. Rev. Lett. 50, 697
O. H. Nielsen and Richard M. Martin "Quantum-mechanical theory of stress and force" Phys. Rev. B 32, 3780
http://docs.quantumwise.com/tutorials/elastic_constants/elastic_constants.html