Table 3.

Example of Young’s modulus, E, and Poisson’s ratio, $\nu$, of a-SiO${}_2$ from experiment and simulational studies reported in literature. The bound refers to the maximum and minimum values of reported experimental and numerical data.

	Reference Study	E (GPa)	$\mathit{\nu }$
Experiment	Freund and Suresh [39]	80	0.22
	Deschamps et al. [40]	71.5	0.176
	Wiederhorn [41]	72.1	...
	Wallenberger et al. [42]	69	...
	Bansal and Doremus [43]	72.9	...
Bound		69–80	0.176–0.22
ReaxFF simulation	Hao and Hossain [15]	69.1	0.25–0.32
	Chowdhury et al. [22] ${}^{\mathrm{a}}$	75.4–76.68	...
	Chowdhury et al. [44]	74	0.39
	Rimsza et al. [28]	...	0.31
	Yu et al. [45]	80.4 ± 1.9	...
	Mei et al. [35]	60	0.296
Bound		60–82.3	0.25–0.39

${}^{\mathrm{a}}$ Values for strain-rate smaller than $2.5\times {10}^{11}$ s${}^{-1}$.