ELATE: Elastic tensor analysis

Welcome to ELATE, the online tool for analysis of elastic tensors, developed by Romain Gaillac and François-Xavier Coudert at CNRS / Chimie ParisTech.
If you use the software in published results (paper, conference, etc.), please cite the corresponding paper (J. Phys. Condens. Matter, 2016, 28, 275201) and give the website URL.

ELATE is open source software. Any queries or comments are welcome at

Summary of the properties

Input: stiffness matrix (coefficients in GPa) of PrAl3 (Materials Project id mp-12553)

        90       38       44        0        0        0  
        38       90       44        0        0        0  
        44       44      190        0        0        0  
         0        0        0       65        0        0  
         0        0        0        0       65        0  
         0        0        0        0        0       26

Average properties

Averaging scheme	Bulk modulus	Young's modulus	Shear modulus	Poisson's ratio
Voigt	K_V = 69.111 GPa	E_V = 115.87 GPa	G_V = 47.467 GPa	ν_V = 0.22057
Reuss	K_R = 61.59 GPa	E_R = 96.754 GPa	G_R = 39.071 GPa	ν_R = 0.23818
Hill	K_H = 65.351 GPa	E_H = 106.34 GPa	G_H = 43.269 GPa	ν_H = 0.2288

Eigenvalues of the stiffness matrix

λ₁	λ₂	λ₃	λ₄	λ₅	λ₆
26 GPa	52 GPa	65 GPa	65 GPa	89.48 GPa	228.52 GPa

Variations of the elastic moduli

	Young's modulus		Linear compressibility		Shear modulus		Poisson's ratio
	E_min	E_max	β_min	β_max	G_min	G_max	ν_min	ν_max
Value	70.12 GPa	161.16 GPa	1.9562 TPa^–1	7.1401 TPa^–1	26 GPa	65 GPa	-0.026502	0.45574	Value
Anisotropy	2.298		3.6500		2.5		∞		Anisotropy
Axis	0.9659 0.2588 0.0000	0.2658 0.0745 0.9611	0.0000 0.0000 1.0000	0.3827 0.9239 0.0000	0.9573 0.2890 0.0000	0.0000 0.0000 1.0000	0.3322 0.6154 -0.7148	0.3069 0.5563 0.7722	Axis
					-0.2890 0.9573 -0.0000	0.7660 0.6428 -0.0000	0.3395 0.6290 0.6993	-0.8756 0.4831 0.0000	Second axis

Spatial dependence of Young's modulus

Young's modulus in (xy) plane

Young's modulus in (xz) plane

Young's modulus in (yz) plane

Spatial dependence of linear compressibility

linear compressibility in (xy) plane

linear compressibility in (xz) plane

linear compressibility in (yz) plane

Spatial dependence of shear modulus

Shear modulus in (xy) plane

Shear modulus in (xz) plane

Shear modulus in (yz) plane

Spatial dependence of Poisson's ratio

Poisson's ratio in (xy) plane

Poisson's ratio in (xz) plane

Poisson's ratio in (yz) plane