High‐pressure elastic properties of major materials of Earth's mantle from first principles

BB Karki, L Stixrude… - Reviews of Geophysics, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
The elasticity of materials is important for our understanding of processes ranging from brittle
failure, to flexure, to the propagation of elastic waves. Seismologically revealed structure of …

On amorphization as a deformation mechanism under high stresses

H Idrissi, P Carrez, P Cordier - Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper we review the work related to amorphization under mechanical stress. Beyond
pressure, we highlight the role of deviatoric or shear stresses. We show that the most recent …

Elastic instabilities in crystals from ab initio stress-strain relations

BB Karki, GJ Ackland, J Crain - Journal of Physics: Condensed …, 1997 - iopscience.iop.org
Pressure-induced elastic instabilities are investigated in the prototypic ionic and covalent
solids (MgO, CaO, and Si) using generalized elastic stability criteria based on the elastic …

Shock-induced amorphization in silicon carbide

S Zhao, R Flanagan, EN Hahn, B Kad, BA Remington… - Acta Materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
While silicon carbide (SiC) has been predicted to undergo pressure-induced amorphization,
the microstructural evidence of such a drastic phase change is absent as its brittleness …

High-pressure phases of group IV and III-Vsemiconductors

GJ Ackland - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2001 - iopscience.iop.org
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Mechanistic aspects and atomic-level consequences of elastic instabilities in homogeneous crystals

S Yip, J Li, M Tang, J Wang - Materials Science and Engineering: A, 2001 - Elsevier
Elastic stability criteria, derived for a homogenous lattice under arbitrary external load,
provide an upper bound on the critical stress or strain which a crystalline solid can …

High-density amorphous phase of silicon carbide obtained under large plastic shear and high pressure

VI Levitas, Y Ma, E Selvi, J Wu, JA Patten - Physical Review B—Condensed …, 2012 - APS
In situ x-ray diffraction study of the hexagonal 6H SiC under pressure and shear in rotational
diamond anvil cell is performed that reveals phase transformation to the new high-density …

Silicon carbide nanowires under external loads: An atomistic simulation study

MA Makeev, D Srivastava, M Menon - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter …, 2006 - APS
The nanomechanical response properties of 3 C-SiC nanowires are investigated using
molecular dynamics simulation with Tersoff bond-order interatomic potential. Under axial …

Atomistic modeling of finite-temperature properties of β-SiC. I. Lattice vibrations, heat capacity, and thermal expansion

LJ Porter, J Li, S Yip - Journal of nuclear materials, 1997 - Elsevier
We present a two-part theoretical study of the thermal properties of crystalline β-SiC based
on an empirical interatomic potential developed by Tersoff which emphasizes the bond …

Unifying two criteria of Born: Elastic instability and melting of homogeneous crystals

J Wang, J Li, S Yip, D Wolf, S Phillpot - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and …, 1997 - Elsevier
The criteria formulated by M. Born for the onset of melting (1939) and lattice stability (1940)
are re-examined on the basis of more general considerations of elastic instabilities. With the …