Operational conditions

Material properties depend on the operational conditions to which the material is subjected. Most commonly, material property parameterisations are temperature-dependent. However, parameterisations may exist for a wide variety of other conditions, such as magnetic field and radiation damage.

In matproplib all material properties are called with an OperationalConditions object. The following fields are available by default:

Operational Condition Name	Units	Definition
temperature	K	Operational temperature.
pressure	Pa	Operational pressure (fluids).
magnetic_field	T	Operational magnetic field.
strain	—	Operational strain.
neutron_damage	dpa	Operational neutron damage (displacements per atom).
neutron_fluence	1/m^2	Operational neutron fluence.