Comprehensive Studies of Some d Band Metals

A comprehensive studies of physical properties of transition metals is carried out using a Psuedopotential formalism. The proposed model is used for the calculations of the phonon dispersion, the phonon density of states, elastic constants, their pressure derivatives, cold equation of state, interatomic interaction, mode Grüneisen parameter , the temperature variation of Debye temperature , Debye Waller factor, Mean Square Displacement, variation of Grüneisen parameter with volume, melting curves, isothermal Bulk modulus, adiabetic bulk modulus, thermal pressure, thermal expansion, Specific heat at constant volume, specific heat at constant pressure, for for ten f.c.c. transition metals, Cu, Ag, Au, Ni, Pd, Pt, Co, Fe, lr and Rh with a reasonably good success. It should be noted that such comprehensive studies are quite rare in the-literature.