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The elastic constants of several Al-based icosahedral alloys were measured over a temperature range from 4K to 1073 K by the rectangular parallelepiped resonance method. The values of the bulk moduli of these quasicrystals are similar to those of conventional cubic crystals having similar melting temperatures, while the values of Young's and shear moduli are larger in comparison with conventional aluminium alloys. The latter feature is considered to be due to the strong directional bonding in the quasicrystals.
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