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Features
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The following features of ElATools are highlighted:
- **3D Elastic Properties of 3D materials:**
- Bulk modulus
- Shear modulus
- Young's modulus
- P-wave modulus
- Poisson's ratio
- Pugh ratio
- Universal anisotropy index (AU)
- Log-Euclidean anisotropy parameter (AL)
- Chung-Buessem Anisotropy Index (Ac)
- Cauchy pressure (Pc)
- Kleinman parameter **New**
- Lame’s first and second parameters **New**
- Hardness information **New**
- **Elastic Properties of 2D materials:**
- Young's modulus
- Poisson's ratio
- Shaer modulus
- Area modulus
- Elastic anisotropy index (A_SU)
- Ranganathan Elastic anisotropy index (A_Ra)
- Kube Elastic anisotropy index (A_Kube)
- **Visualization of 3D materials:**
- 3D representation of Bulk modulus (tested)
- 3D representation of Shear modulus (tested)
- 3D representation of Linear Compressibiliy (tested)
- 3D representation of Young modulus (tested)
- 3D representation of Poisson's ratio (tested)
- 3D representation of Pugh ratio (testing)
- 3D representation of Hardness (testing) **New**
- 3D representation of Phase velocity_P, Fast and slow modes (tested) **New**
- 3D representation of Group velocity_P, Fast and slow modes (tested) **New**
- 3D representation of Power flow angle_P, Fast and slow modes (tested) **New**
- 2D Heat map of Bulk modulus (tested) **New**
- 2D Heat map of Shear modulus (tested) **New**
- 2D Heat map of Linear Compressibiliy (tested) **New**
- 2D Heat map of Young modulus (tested) **New**
- 2D Heat map of Poisson ratio (tested) **New**
- 2D Heat map of Pugh ratio (testing) **New**
- 2D Heat map of hardness (testing) **New**
- 2D Heat map of Phase velocity_P, Fast and slow modes (tested) **New**
- 2D Heat map of Group velocity_P, Fast and slow modes (tested) **New**
- 2D Heat map of Power flow angle_P, Fast and slow modes (tested) **New**
.. note:: It can produce 2D cuts in any given plane for these properties.
- **Visualization of 2D materials:**
- 2D representation of Young’s modulus (tested)
- 2D representation of Poisson's ratio (tested)
- 2D representation of Shear modulus (tested) **New**
- Polar heat-map of Young’s modulus (tested) **New**
- Polar heat-map of Poisson's ratio (tested) **New**
- Polar heat-map of Shear modulus (tested) **New**
- **Advanced option for 2D materials:** **New**
- rectangular material
- quadratic material
- oblique material
- **Interfaces to**
- `IRelast `_ code in WEIN2k (For 3D system)
- `Relast2D `_ code in WEIN2k (For 2D system) **New**
- `Elast `_ code in WEIN2k (For 3D system)
- `AELAS `_ code for VASP (For 2D and 3D systems)
- `ElaStic `_ code for QE, WEIN2k and Exciting (For 3D systems) **New**
.. note:: Cij tensor can be used as a input by **Cij.dat** file for 3D system and **Cij-2D.dat** for 2D system.
- **Has a database with more than 13000 elastic constants (Cij) for 3D materials.**
- **Supports different symmetries**
- Cubic
- Hexagonal
- Tetragonal
- Orthorhombic
- Rhombohedral
- Monoclinic
- **Checks stability conditions**
- Stability conditions of 3D systems
- Stability conditions of 2D systems
- **Supports various output files for visualizing data**
- wrl
- agr
- gnu
- dat
- html **New**