Elastic Constants and Their Measurement

Apparent elastic constants of cubic crystals and their pressure derivatives

Expressions for the pressure-dependent apparent elastic constants of cubic crystals are derived in terms of their original secondand third-order elastic constants. New expressions are obtained for the apparent compliances and their pressure derivatives. Results are shown to be in agreement with those based on the apparent elastic moduli. ( 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

Facile measurement of single-crystal elastic constants from polycrystalline samples

Elastic constants are among the most fundamental properties of materials. Simulations of microstructural evolution and constitutive/micro-mechanistic modeling of materials properties require elastic constants that are predominately measured from single crystals that are labor intensive to grow. A facile technique is developed to measure elastic constants from polycrystalline samples. The techni...

Martensitic Transformation and Elastic Constants

Elastic constants of natural quartz.

The elastic constants of a natural-quartz sphere using resonance-ultrasound spectroscopy (RUS) are measured. The measurements of the near-traction-free vibrational frequencies of the sphere are matched with the predicted frequencies from the dynamic theory of elasticity, with optimized estimates for the elastic constants driving the differences between these sets of frequencies to a minimal val...

Measurement of third-order elastic constants and stress dependent coefficients for steels

Background: There has been little discussion of the third-order elastic constants of steels in the literature until now. In this study, the precise secondand third-order elastic constants of polycrystalline steels were measured under adiabatic and isothermal conditions. Method: Tomeasure theminute change in the propagation time of the elastic wave corresponding to the tensile stress, the unifor...