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We apply the pseudopotential density functional perturbation theory approach along with the quasiharmonic approximation to calculate the thermal expansion of tungsten and two important metallic alloys, NiAl and PdTi. We derive the theory…
We developed a metallic pressure cell made of nickel-chromium-aluminum (NiCrAl) for use with a non-destructive pulse magnet and a magnetic susceptibility measurement apparatus with a proximity detector oscillator (PDO) in pulsed magnetic…
Thermal expansion is a problem in many technological applications and its control represents a challenge in materials design. In this Letter, after studying the correlation between thermal expansion, cubic-to-rhombohedral transition and…
Hexagonal metals have anisotropic coefficients of thermal expansion causing grain-level internal stresses during heating. High energy x-ray diffraction microscopy, a non-destructive, in situ, micromechanical and microstructural…
Negative thermal expansion (NTE) is unusual but important property for control of thermal expansion. In the present study, the chemical modification is utilized to engineer controllable thermal expansion in cubic NTE ScF3. A broad window of…
The negative thermal expansion (NTE) compound ZrW2O8 has been well-studied because it remains cubic with a nearly constant, isotropic NTE coefficient over a broad temperature range. However, its elastic constants seem just as strange as its…
Disordered materials are attracting considerable attention because of their enhanced properties compared to their ordered analogs, making them particularly suitable for high-temperature applications. The feasibility of incorporating these…
Results of torsional oscillation tests are reported that were performed at the temperature T=230C on melts of a hybrid nanocomposite consisting of isotactic polypropylene reinforced with 5 wt.% of montmorillonite clay. Prior to mechanical…
Thermal expansion and magnetostriction are directional dependent thermodynamic quantities. For the characterization of novel quantum phases of matter it is required to study materials under multi-extreme conditions, in particular down to…
This paper describes COMSOL simulations of the stress and crack development in the area where a masonry wall supports a floor. In these simulations one of the main material properties of calcium silicate, its E-value, was assigned randomly…
Predictions of the anisotropic coefficients of thermal expansion are needed to not only compare to experimental measurement, but also as input for macroscopic modeling of devices which operate over a large temperature range. While most…
We report the synthesis and structural characterisation of the molecular framework copper(I) hexacyanocobaltate(III), Cu$_3$[Co(CN)$_6$], which we find to be isostructural to H$_3$[Co(CN)$_6$] and the colossal negative thermal expansion…
We determine the sensitivity to neutrino oscillation parameters from a study of atmospheric neutrinos in a magnetised detector such as the ICAL at the proposed India-based Neutrino Observatory. In such a detector that can {\em separately}…
Incompressible nonlinearly hyperelastic materials are rarely simulated in Finite Element numerical experiments as being perfectly incompressible because of the numerical difficulties associated with globally satisfying this constraint. Most…
The high temperature expansion is an analytical tool to study critical phenomena in statistical mechanics. We apply this method to 3d effective theories of Polyakov loops, which have been derived from 4d lattice Yang-Mills by means of…
We develop a first-principles model of thermally-activated cross-slip in magnesium in the presence of a random solute distribution. Electronic structure methods provide data for the interaction of solutes with prismatic dislocation cores…
Anisotropic thermal expansion plays a critical role in the performance and reliability of functional materials, yet its theoretical description remains limited. Here, a computational framework that reduces the calculation of thermal…
The critical behavior of the Ising model on a fractal lattice, which has the Hausdorff dimension $\log_{4} 12 \approx 1.792$, is investigated using a modified higher-order tensor renormalization group algorithm supplemented with automatic…
This project is focused on developing an experimental framework for characterizing non-associative plasticity flow rule coefficients through coupon-scale tests for the LS-DYNA MAT213 model. The main objective is to characterize these…
The CALICE collaboration is developing a granular electromagnetic calorimeter using (5-10) mm x 45 mm x 3 mm scintillator strips for a future linear collider experiment. Each scintillator strip is read out by using a Pixelated Photon…