feat(data): add borated PE, ordinary concrete, SF6 (#144, #145, #146)#214
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Phase 5 batch 9 — three shielding/insulation materials closing the final issues in the Materials Catalog Expansion milestone. - borated_pe: 5 wt% natural-B HDPE neutron-shielding composite. Mechanical / thermal scalars from Emco Plastics borated-HDPE 5 wt% datasheet, cross-checked against Shieldwerx SWX-201 family. Nuclear table omitted — PDG does not list borated PE separately and the (n,α) capture cross- section has no schema slot (TODO: schema neutron_capture_xs). - concrete_ordinary: NIST PML PSTAR / Geant4 G4_CONCRETE canonical Portland-concrete composition (matno=144). Density 2.30 g/cm^3, I = 135.2 eV; X0 and λ from PDG 2024 `shielding concrete` table. Mechanical / thermal scalars omitted — too mix-design-dependent for a single primary citation. - sf6: high-voltage dielectric gas. Density and triple-point T from Guder & Wagner (2009) JPCRD reference EOS. Thermal conductivity from Assael et al. (2012) JPCRD NIST-coauthored reference correlation. Cp from NIST-JANAF (Chase 1998). Breakdown voltage 8.9 kV/mm at 1 atm underwritten by Christophorou-Olthoff-Van Brunt (1997) NIST review and the (E/N)_lim ≈ 361 Td result of Christophorou & Olthoff (2000) JPCRD. Dielectric constant ε_r = 1.002 from Kita & Schloesser (1994). Closes #144, #145, #146.
`typos` was rewriting "ACI" → "ACPI" inside ceramics.toml comments referencing ACI 318 (the concrete-engineering standard). Adding ACI to the allowlist; same pattern as LSO and DuPont above.
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Summary
Phase 5 batch 9 — three shielding / dielectric materials closing the final issues in the Materials Catalog Expansion milestone (29 entries total).
borated_peplastics.tomlconcrete_ordinaryceramics.tomlsf6gases.tomlCloses #144, #145, #146.
Hazard / caveats
melting_pointstores the triple-point T (223.7 K = -49.5 °C). Sublimation point documented in_sources.notesince the schema lacks a sublimation field.# TODO: schema neutron_capture_xsdocuments the gap. Z_eff and X₀ for unborated PE differ by ≪ 5 % from the borated value, so users requiring nuclear scalars can usepe.hdpeas a fallback.Files
src/pymat/data/plastics.toml—borated_peblock + per-property_sources(vendor, proprietary-reference-only)src/pymat/data/ceramics.toml—concrete_ordinaryblock + per-property_sources(PD-USGov + CC-BY-4.0)src/pymat/data/gases.toml—sf6block + per-property_sources(PD-USGov for Assael/Christophorou/JANAF, proprietary-reference-only for Guder-Wagner / Kita)src/pymat/__init__.py—_CATEGORY_BASESupdated forborated_pe,concrete_ordinary,sf6LICENSES-DATA.md— regenerated; PDG 2024 shielding-concrete entry added (CC-BY-4.0)Test plan
python -c "import tomllib; tomllib.loads(open('src/pymat/data/plastics.toml').read())"— valid TOMLpython -c "import tomllib; tomllib.loads(open('src/pymat/data/ceramics.toml').read())"— valid TOMLpython -c "import tomllib; tomllib.loads(open('src/pymat/data/gases.toml').read())"— valid TOMLpython scripts/check_licenses.py— passes (7 TOMLs scanned)uv run pytest tests/test_toml_integrity.py tests/test_sources.py -v— 43 / 43 passuv run pytest— 628 passed, 24 skipped (visual-regression)uv run ruff check . && uv run ruff format --check .— cleanuv run python -c "from pymat import borated_pe, concrete_ordinary, sf6; print(borated_pe.density, concrete_ordinary.density, sf6.density)"→0.955 2.3 0.00616