| dc.description.abstract | The continuum theory of elasticity has been used for more than a century and has applications in many fields of science and engineering. It is very robust, well understood and mathematically elegant. In the isotropic case elastic properties are easily represented, but for non-isotropic materials, even in the simple cubic symmetry, it can be difficult to visualise how properties such as Young's modulus or Poisson's ratio vary with stress/strain orientation. The ElAM (Elastic Anisotropy Measures) code carries out the required tensorial operations (inversion, rotation, diagonalisation) and creates 3D models of an elastic property's anisotropy. It can also produce 2D cuts in any given plane, compute averages following diverse schemes and query a database of elastic constants to support meta-analyses.
Program summary
Program title: ElAM1.0
Catalogue identifier: AEHB_v1_0
Program summary URL:http://cpc.cs.qub.ac.uk/summaries/AEHB_v1_0.html
Program obtainable from: CPC Program Library, Queen's University, Belfast, N. Ireland
Licensing provisions: Standard CPC licence, http://cpc.cs.qub.ac.uk/licence/licence.html
No. of lines in distributed program, including test data, etc.: 43 848
No. of bytes in distributed program, including test data, etc.: 2 498 882
Distribution format: tar.gz
Programming language: Fortran90
Computer: Any
Operating system: Linux, Windows (XP, Vista)
RAM: Depends chiefly on the size of the arrays representing elastic properties in 3D
Classification: 7.7
Nature of problem: Representation of elastic moduli and ratios, and of wave velocities, in 3D; automatic discovery of unusual elastic properties.
Solution method: Stiffness matrix (6×6)(6×6) inversion and conversion to compliance tensor (3×3×3×3)(3×3×3×3), tensor rotation, dynamic matrix diagonalisation, simple optimisation, postscript and VRML output preparation.
Running time: Dependent on angular accuracy and size of elastic constant database (from a few seconds to a few hours). The tests provided take from a few seconds for test0 to approximately 1 hour for test4. | en_GB |
| dc.description | Copyright © 2010 Elsevier. NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Computer Physics Communications. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Computer Physics Communications, Volume 181, Issue 12 (2010), DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2010.08.033 | en_GB |
