Thursday, January 8, 2009

Thursday, 8th January 09, 1900 hrs

The threaded program for the indentation is 70% complete and its up and running. L-D curve is observed to be sinusoidal at low indenter speeds and distances far away from the surface.

2 new concepts have been added:
Large list - this additional list has been added to improve speeds by providing the environment list where neighbor atoms will be identified
Append list - increases speed dramatically by modifying the previous list and not making a new one every time the makelist() function is called]

SegFaults (SF) can now be circumvented, thanks to GDB.
SF tips: Always remember to create output folder