TITLE:
Potential Energy Curves & Material Properties
AUTHORS:
Devarakonda Annapurna Padmavathi
KEYWORDS:
Potential Energy Curves, Material Properties
JOURNAL NAME:
Materials Sciences and Applications,
Vol.2 No.2,
February
25,
2011
ABSTRACT: Potential energy curves govern the properties of materials. A critical analysis of the potential energy curve helps better understand the properties of the material. Potential energy curve and in turn the properties of any material depend on the composition, bonding, crystal structure, their mechanical processing and microstructure. The type, strength, and directionality of atomic bonding controls the structure and material properties viz., melting temperature, thermal expansion, elastic stiffness, electrical properties, ductility and toughness etc. This paper attempts to bring out the correlation between the potential energy curves with the properties of materials.