Research Article

First-Principles Calculations to Investigate the Third-Order Elastic Constants and Mechanical Properties of Mg, Be, Ti, Zn, Zr, and Cd

Figure 2

The strain-energy relations for Mg. The hollow circle denotes the results of DFT results; solid lines represent the curves obtained from nonlinear elasticity theory; dashed lines indicate the curves obtained from linear elasticity. (a–j) Lagrangian strains , and respectively.
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)
(g)
(h)
(i)
(j)