Elastic constants and thermodynamic properties of Mg-Pr, Mg-Dy, Mg-Y intermetallics with atomistic simulations

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 7584-7592

  Wu, Yurong ^a   Hu, Wangyu ^a   Sun, Lixian ^b  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DALIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC CONSTANTS; FREE ENERGY; SPECIFIC HEAT;

ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS; HARMONIC APPROXIMATION; VIBRATIONAL DENSITY OF STATES;

INTERMETALLICS;

EID: 36349037084     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/40/23/052     Document Type: Article

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