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.

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Summary of the properties

Input: stiffness matrix (coefficients in GPa) of Fe (Materials Project id mp-150)

        -4      262      262        0        0        0  
       262       -4      262        0        0        0  
       262      262       -4        0        0        0  
         0        0        0       28        0        0  
         0        0        0        0       28        0  
         0        0        0        0        0       28

Average properties

Averaging scheme	Bulk modulus	Young's modulus	Shear modulus	Poisson's ratio
Voigt	K_V = 173.33 GPa	E_V = -117.42 GPa	G_V = -36.4 GPa	ν_V = 0.6129
Reuss	K_R = 173.33 GPa	E_R = 147.46 GPa	G_R = 54.286 GPa	ν_R = 0.35821
Hill	K_H = 173.33 GPa	E_H = 26.375 GPa	G_H = 8.9429 GPa	ν_H = 0.47464

Eigenvalues of the stiffness matrix

λ₁	λ₂	λ₃	λ₄	λ₅	λ₆
-266 GPa	-266 GPa	28 GPa	28 GPa	28 GPa	520 GPa

Stiffness matrix is not definite positive, crystal is mechanically unstable
No further analysis will be performed.

Code version: 2023.01.19 (running on Python 3.10.6)