I've been here before, but lots can happen in a year or two..new
faces. So, let me introduce myself: My name is Quirina Roode and I am
currently doing my PhD in cement chemistry, the objective being to
establish quantitative relationships between the microstructure and
phase chemistry of the cement--through a hydration chemistry model--
to the engineering properties of a cement-based material.
I am actually a chemist, not a civil engineer, and my MSc was in
crystallography under the supervision of the famous Prof. Jan Boeyens
and Dr. Johan de Villiers.
At present I am doing work in phase quantitation of cement phases
using the Rietveld method.
Now...to invite some discussion on a problem that I am having.
Anybody that can give me any advise is much appreciated. I have been
an ardent user of the SIROQUANT software and when it first came out
it was a really simple matter to add another mineral to the data file
"quant.dat" because the file was small and I used the dos editor or
Notepad in Windows successfully. Now the file "quant.dat" is enormous
and these latter editors cannot cope with the file size. All other
common editors seem to change the format of the file ever so slightly
so that SIROQUANT does not like it. Any suggestions for good editing
software???
Thank you in advance.
Sincerely,
Quirina I. Roode
PhD student: Cement Chemistry
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Department of Civil Engineering
University of the Witwatersrand
P O Wits, 2050, Johannesburg
SOUTH AFRICA
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ROODE@civen.civil.wits.ac.za
Tel: +27-(0)11-716-2478 (w)
Fax: +27-(0)11-339-1762 (w)