A first-principles approach to finite temperature elastic constants
1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
Abstract:
A first-principles approach to calculating the elastic stiffness coefficients at finite temperatures was proposed. It is based on the assumption that the temperature dependence of elastic stiffness coefficients mainly results from volume change as a function of temperature; it combines the first-principles calculations of elastic constants at 0 K and the first-principles phonon theory of thermal expansion. Its applications to elastic constants of Al, Cu, Ni, Mo, Ta, NiAl, and Ni₃Al from 0 K up to their respective melting points show excellent agreement between the predicted values and existing experimental measurements.
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