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Elastic Constants of TiB₂

This application shows the calculation of the elastic constants of TiB₂, a hexagonal structure.

The total computing time of this calculation is 7 minutes on an Intel Core 2 Duo with 2 GHz, including relaxation of atoms in strained structures requires 10 minutes total.

Full Version (pdf): 
application/pdf iconElastic Constants of TiB2.pdf

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