Effects of Temperature on Structural Properties of Hydrated Montmorillonite: Experimental Study and Molecular Dynamics Simulation

Table 1

Simulated and experimental Young’s modulus for dry Na-MMT.

	Young’s modulus-X (GPa)	Young’s modulus-Y (GPa)	Young’s modulus-Z (GPa)
MD simulation results from this study	193.04	199.28086	ND
MD simulation values from the literature	197–246	249–251	11.5–15
Experimental results	5–16	178–265	6.2

ND : not determined.