ELATE: An open-source online application for analysis and visualization of elastic tensors

TL;DR

ELATE is an open-source online tool that enables analysis and visualization of elastic tensors, combining Python and JavaScript for interactive exploration of anisotropic mechanical properties.

Contribution

The paper introduces ELATE, a novel open-source software that integrates Python and web technologies for elastic tensor analysis and visualization.

Findings

Provides a user-friendly online platform for elastic tensor visualization

Enables detailed analysis of anisotropic mechanical properties

Open-source implementation facilitates community use and development

Abstract

We report on the implementation of a tool for the analysis of second-order elastic stiffness tensors, provided with both an open-source Python module and a standalone online application providing visualization tools of anisotropic mechanical properties. After describing the software features, how we compute the conventional elastic constants and how we represent them graphically, we explain our technical choices for the implementation. In particular, we focus on why a Python module is used to generate the HTML web page with embedded Javascript for dynamical plots.