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Calculation of elastic properties of crystals
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**New version 5.0 released**
The new version is API *incompatible* with the previous versions.
It provides a new command line utility as the main user interface
to the package - which hoppefully will broaden the user base byond
python users.
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Elastic is a set of python routines for calculation of elastic properties of
crystals (elastic constants, equation of state, sound velocities, etc.).
It is a fifth version of the in-house code I have
written over several years and is implemented as a extension to the
`ASE `_ system and a script providing
interface to the library not requiring knowledge of python or ASE system.
The code was a basis for some of my publications and was
described briefly in these papers. The code was available to anyone, presented
at our `Workshop on ab initio Calculations in Geosciences `_
and used by some of my co-workers but was never properly published with
full documentation, project page etc. In 2010, I have decided to re-implement
elastic as a module for the `ASE `_ system
and publish it properly under the GPL as versions 3 and 4.
Later, in 2017, needs of users nudged me into implementing the command-line
front-end to the library which is included with version 5.0 of the package.
The version 5.0 also changes API of the library from mix-in class to the set
of simple functions providing functionality of the module. The workflow of the
package was also changed to prepare data - calculate - post-process style,
which is better suited to serious research work.
The source code started live on the
`launchpad project page `_ and later in 2014
moved to the `github repository `_ with
corresponding `elastic web page `_ and
on-line documentation placed at `Elastic website `_
(you are probably reading from it already).
The project is free software and I welcome patches, ideas and other feedback.
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:maxdepth: 3
intro
cli-usage
lib-usage
modules
endmatter
* :ref:`search`