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Cubic symmetry

Submitted by ramdas chennamsetti on

Hi all!!!

Could anybody please give some examples of materials possessing cubic symmetry (these materials need three independent elastic material properties).

Thanking you,

- R. Chennamsetti 

In the book, Thin Film Materials, by Ben Freund and Subra Suresh, there is a table of elastic constants for cubic crystals, including face-centered cubic (e.g., Ag, Au, Cu), body-centered cubic (W, Ta, Cr), diamond cubic (C, Si, Ge), and compounds (GaAs, InP, and NaCl). They all have three independent elastic constants. 

RH

Fri, 06/13/2008 - 14:42 Permalink