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Pressure

An external pressure (units are GPa) can be applied with:

relax_pressure 10.0

If an entry like

relax_pressure adjust

is found, the pressure is chosen from the first iteration, taking it to be 1/3 of the trace of the stress.

Default: relax_pressure 0.0



Andrew Canning
Wed May 13 15:17:45 PDT 1998