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Understanding and simulating the thermodynamic and dynamical properties of materials affected by strong ionic anharmonicity is a central challenge in material science. Much interest is in material displaying critical displacive behaviour,…
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Reliable and robust methods of predicting the crystal structure of a compound, based only on its chemical composition, is crucial to the study of materials and their applications. Despite considerable ongoing research efforts, crystal…
This paper describes a modification of Ehlers' model for the inelastic behavior of granular media. The modified model can be applied for describing the inelastic behavior of porous media. The key feature is a subtle change of the yield…
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