Romano, Antonino; Li, Ju; Yip, Sidney - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 304 (2002) 1, pp. 11-22
Atomistic simulation can give insights to the mechanical behavior of stressed crystalline hard materials. Theoretical strength, defined in the long wavelength limit through elastic stability criteria, or more generally in terms of soft vibrational modes in the deformed lattice, can be studied by...