L'article intitulé "Elastic properties and hardness values of V2AlC and Cr2AlC single crystals" a été publié dans Physical Review Materials
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Ici vous trouverez l'article de Thierry Ouisse 'Herein we report on a subset of the elastic constants,cij, and hardness values ofV2AlCandCr2AlCsingle crystals by means of microindentation/nanoindentation techniques. Density functional theory (DFT) is also used to calculate the elastic constants. Thec33andc11values determined using a Berkovich tip and those calculated by DFT are all found to fall in the relatively narrow range of 320–350 GPa. These results confirm once again that many of MAX phases are relatively elastically isotropic, especially when compared to many other known layered solids such as graphite and mica. Similarly, the hardness values, obtained using Vickers, Berkovich, and a 5µm spherical tip on the two orthogonalCr2AlCsurfaces, are quite comparable and average 9.0 ± 1 GPa. In all cases, the hardness values are at most 20% higher when the basal planes are loaded along [0001] than when they are loaded edge-on.... '