Elastic properties of iron-rich hcp Fe-Mg alloys up to Earth's core pressures

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 271, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 221-225

  Kádas, Krisztina ^a,b   Vitos, Levente ^a,b,c   Ahuja, Rajeev ^a,c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b WIGNER RESEARCH CENTRE FOR PHYSICS   (Hungary)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ab initio; Earth's inner core; Elasticity; Pressure

Indexed keywords

AXIAL RATIO (AR); DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL (DF); EARTH'S CORE; ELASTIC PROPERTIES; HEXAGONAL CLOSED PACKED (HCP); INNER CORE; MG ALLOYS; ORBITAL METHODS; SHEAR MODULUS; SOUND VELOCITIES; SOUND WAVES;

ALLOYING; ALLOYS; CUBIC BORON NITRIDE; ELASTIC CONSTANTS; ELASTICITY; IRON; IRON ALLOYS; MAGNESIUM PRINTING PLATES; METALS; PRESSURE; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TIN; TINNING; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS; WAVES;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

ALLOY; ELASTICITY; INNER CORE; IRON; MAGNESIUM; SHEAR MODULUS;

ACOUSTICS; ALLOY; BORON COMPOUNDS; DENSITY; ELASTICITY; IRON; MAGNESIUM; METALS; PRESSURE; TIN; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS; WAVES;

EID: 45049087243     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.04.003     Document Type: Article

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