Elastic anisotropy in minerals

1973 ◽  
Vol 39 (301) ◽  
pp. 78-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. E. Newnham ◽  
Hyo Sub Yoon

SummarySilicate minerals show several correlations between structure type and elastic constants. Stiffness coefficients are generally larger in the direction of Si-O bonding. A simple mechanical analogy in which atomic bonds are simulated by springs connected in series and parallel is used to estimate the size and anisotropy of the elastic moduli and their pressure derivatives.

2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. C. Dragomir ◽  
T. Ungár

Diffraction peak profiles broaden due to the smallness of crystallites and the presence of lattice defects. Strain broadening of powders of polycrystalline materials is often anisotropic in terms of the hkl indices. This kind of strain anisotropy has been shown to be well interpreted assuming dislocations as one of the major sources of lattice distortions. The knowledge of the dislocation contrast factors are inevitable for this interoperation. In a previous work the theoretical contrast factors were evaluated for cubic crystals for elastic constants in the Zener constant range 0.5≤Az≤8. A large number of ionic crystals and many refractory metals have elastic anisotropy, Az, well below 0.5. In the present work the contrast factors for this lower anisotropy-constant range are investigated. The calculations and the corresponding peak profile analysis are tested on ball milled PbS and Nb and nanocrystalline CeO2.


2017 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 321-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Amudhavalli ◽  
M. Manikandan ◽  
A. Jemmy Cinthia ◽  
R. Rajeswarapalanichamy ◽  
K. Iyakutti

AbstractThe structural stabilities of cobalt mononitride (CoN) and nickel mono-nitride (NiN) were investigated among the crystal structures, namely, NaCl (B1), CsCl (B2), and zinc blende (B3). It was found that the zinc blende (B3) phase was the most stable phase for both nitrides. A pressure-induced structural phase transition from B3 to B1 phase was predicted in these nitrides. The computed lattice parameter values were in agreement with the experimental values and other theoretical values. The electronic structures reveal that these nitrides are metallic at zero pressure. The computed elastic constants indicate that CoN and NiN are mechanically stable in the B1 and B3 phases. The variations of the elastic constants, bulk modulus, shear modulus, Poisson’s ratio, and elastic anisotropy factor with pressure were investigated. The Debye temperature θD values are reported for both the nitrides in their B1 and B3 phases. The high-pressure NaCl phase of both CoN and NiN were found to be ferromagnetic.


2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
S. V. San’kova ◽  
N. M. Shkatulyak ◽  
V. V. Usov ◽  
N. A. Volchok

The measuring of the constants of single-crystals requires the availability of crystals of relatively big size. In this paper the elastic constants of the single crystals of magnesium alloy with zinc, zirconium, and rare earth metals (REM) were determined by means of the experimental anisotropy of Young’s modulus and integral characteristics of texture (ICT), which were found from pole figures. Using these constants the anisotropy of Young’s modulus of alloy sheet ZE10 was calculated. Deviation of calculated values from experimental values did not exceed 2%.


2020 ◽  
Vol 117 (44) ◽  
pp. 27238-27244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clarissa F. Dietrich ◽  
Peter J. Collings ◽  
Thomas Sottmann ◽  
Per Rudquist ◽  
Frank Giesselmann

Recent measurements of the elastic constants in lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals (LCLCs) have revealed an anomalously small twist elastic constant compared to the splay and bend constants. Interestingly, measurements of the elastic constants in the micellar lyotropic liquid crystals (LLCs) that are formed by surfactants, by far the most ubiquitous and studied class of LLCs, are extremely rare and report only the ratios of elastic constants and do not include the twist elastic constant. By means of light scattering, this study presents absolute values of the elastic constants and their corresponding viscosities for the nematic phase of a standard LLC composed of disk-shaped micelles. Very different elastic moduli are found. While the splay elastic constant is in the typical range of 1.5 pN as is true in general for thermotropic nematics, the twist elastic constant is found to be one order of magnitude smaller (0.30 pN) and almost two orders of magnitude smaller than the bend elastic constant (21 pN). These results demonstrate that a small twist elastic constant is not restricted to the special case of LCLCs, but is true for LLCs in general. The reason for this extremely small twist elastic constant very likely originates with the flexibility of the assemblies that are the building blocks of both micellar and chromonic lyotropic liquid crystals.


Crystals ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cai Chen ◽  
Lili Liu ◽  
Yufeng Wen ◽  
Youchang Jiang ◽  
Liwan Chen

The pressure dependence of the lattice and elastic constants of the orthorhombic YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7 are firstly investigated using the first principles calculations based on the density functional theory. The calculated lattice parameters at 0 GPa are in agreement with the available experimental data. By the elastic stability criteria under isotropic pressure, it is predicted that YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7 with and orthorhombic structure is mechanically stable under pressure up to 100 GPa. On the basis of the elastic constants, Pugh’s modulus ratio, Poisson’s ratio, elastic anisotropy, Debye temperature, and the minimum thermal conductivity of YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7 under pressure up to 100 GPa are further investigated. It is found that its ductility, Debye temperature, and minimum thermal conductivity increase with pressure.


2008 ◽  
Vol 1139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus Martinschitz ◽  
Rostislav Daniel ◽  
Christian Mitterer ◽  
Keckes Jozef

AbstractA new X-ray diffraction technique to determine elastic moduli of polycrystalline thin films deposited on monocrystalline substrates is demonstrated. The technique is based on the combination of sin2ψ and X-ray diffraction wafer curvature techniques which are used to characterize X-ray elastic strains and macroscopic stress in thin film. The strain measurements must be performed for various hkl reflections. The stresses are determined from the substrate curvature applying the Stoney's equation. The stress and strain values are used to calculate hkl reflection dependent X-ray elastic moduli. The mechanical elastic moduli can be then extrapolated from X-ray elastic moduli considering film macroscopic elastic anisotropy. The derived approach shows for which reflection and corresponding value of the X-ray anisotropic factor Γ the X-ray elastic moduli are equal to their mechanical counterparts in the case of fibre textured cubic polycrystalline aggregates. The approach is independent of the crystal elastic anisotropy and depends on the fibre texture type, the texture sharpness, the amount of randomly oriented crystallites and on the supposed grain interaction model. The new method is demonstrated on a fiber textured Cu thin film deposited on monocrystalline Si(100) substrate. The advantage of the new technique remains in the fact that moduli are determined non-destructively, using a static diffraction experiment and represent volume averaged quantities.


2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (2019) ◽  
pp. 264-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nguyen Quang Hoc ◽  
Bui Duc Tinh ◽  
Nguyen Duc Hien

AbstractThis paper studies on the dependence of the mean nearest neighbor distance, the Young modulus E, the bulk modulus K, the rigidity modulus G and the elastic constants C11, C12, C44 on temperature, pressure, the concentration of substitution atoms and the concentration of interstitial atoms for alloy AuCuSi (substitution alloy AuCu with interstitial atom Si) with FCC structure by the way of the statistical moment method (SMM). The numerical results for alloy AuCuSi are compared with the numerical results for main metal Au, substitution alloy AuCu, interstitial alloy AuSi, other calculated results and experiments.


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