Elastic properties of polycrystalline dense matter
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
2015-06-23 v1 Materials Science
Abstract
Elastic properties of the solid regions of neutron star crusts and white dwarfs play an important role in theories of stellar oscillations. Matter in compact stars is presumably polycrystalline and, since the elastic properties of single crystals of such matter are very anisotropic, it is necessary to relate elastic properties of the polycrystal to those of a single crystal. We calculate the effective shear modulus of polycrystalline matter with randomly oriented crystallites using a self-consistent theory that has been very successful in applications to terrestrial materials and show that previous calculations overestimate the shear modulus by approximately 28%.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1502.02461,
title = {Elastic properties of polycrystalline dense matter},
author = {D. Kobyakov and C. J. Pethick},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.02461},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Preprint NORDITA-2015-16