ON THE MICROSCOPIC NATURE OF THE YOUNG MODULUS

S. O. Gladkov

UDC 520.1+539.4

On introducing the Van der Waals forces and Kittel mechanism 
of coupling into consideration, a physical approach to analytical 
computation of the Young modulus E has been outlined. By using a numerical 
analysis, a nontrivial behavior of the dependence of E on the atomic 
mass of an element has been predicted.

Moscow State Regional University, 10a Radio Str., Moscow, 
105005, Russia. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 
79, No. 4, pp. 197-199, July-August, 2006. Original article 
submitted December 14, 2004; revision submitted May 11, 2005.