Dear PWSCF users,<br>In the paper of S Q Wang et al. J Phys. Cond. Matter 15 (2003) 5307, (attached with this mail) <br>He uses three types of strains<br><br>1. Tri-axial shear strain to calculate C44<br>2. volume conservative orthorombic strain to calculate shear modulus C`<br>
and <br>3. Hydrostatic pressure to calculate Bulk modulus.<br><br>In
my calculations, on applying the 3rd strain, I am getting different
volumes for different set of strained lattice vectors (Volume non-conserve) and 1st & 2nd type volume remain
same (volume conserved)<br><br><br>Because in order to calculate 3 elastic constants
(C11, C12 and C44) we require 3 equations, so do I have to use the
above three equations, both type (volume conservative and
non-conservative) to calculate a single set of elastic constants?<br><br>please guide me for the same.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Bipul Rakshit<br>PhD Student, <br>Barkatullah University,<br>Bhopal 462026,<br>MP, India<br>