Introduction
The BGMN demo version is intended to be used for getting familiar with the
software and to solve simple and intermediate analytical problems for testing
purpose.
It has no limitations compared with the full version exept that only measuring
data with a maximum of 1601 measuring values can be refined and the forcefield options of BGMN are disabeled.
Licence Conditions
- Use the program at your own risk.
- Educational use of the program is encouraged.
- Commercial use is strictly forbidden.
- Do not expect any support from the author except some e-mails in the
Rietveld mailing list.
- If results achieved with BGMN are to be published, please cite the
following paper:
Bergmann, J., Kleeberg, R., Taut, T. and Haase A.,
'Quantitative Phase Analysis Using a New Rietveld Algorithm -
Assisted by Improved Stability and Convergence Behaviour'.
Adv. X-ray Anal. 40 (1997)
Installation instructions
Download the appropriate program files ('bgmndos.zip/bgmnwin32.zip') and the
data files ('bgmndata.zip'). Create a directory 'rietveld' in the root of a
volume (e.g. c). Then unzip the program files from and the data files into this
directory. Append the BGMN directory to the path. Set the environment variable
EFLECH to the program directory:
EFLECH=c:\rietveld
Now you are ready to run BGMN.
It is recommended to create separate subdirectories for each analytical task
(e.g. c:\rietveld\plaster) and to run all programs from these
subdirectories. These subdirs should contain the control file
(*.sav), the measuring data file
(*.val, *.rd, *.raw), the structure
files (*.str) and the instrumental function file
(*.geq/*.ger).
Download area
Actual Release of BGMN is 2.2.7
- Programs for MS-DOS:
bgmndos.zip (950 kB)
- Programs for Windows 95/Windows NT:
bgmnwin32.zip (702 kB)
- Programs for OS/2 (which is the developer's system):
bgmnos2.zip (609 kB)
- Data for all PC versions (required):
bgmndata.zip (50 kB)
- Programs for Linux (requires at minimum libc.5.4.44 and libm.5.0.9):
bgmnlinux.tar.gz (410 kB)
- Programs for Sun (requires at minimum Solaris 2.5):
bgmnsun.tar.gz (628 kB)
- Programs for HP (requires at minimum HP 10.20, compiled with gcc):
bgmnhp.tar.gz (405 kB)
- Programs for AIX 3.2.5, obsolete version 2.1.1:
bgmnaix32.tar.gz (765 kB)
- Programs for AIX 4.2:
bgmnaix42.tar.gz (793 kB)
- Data for all UNIX versions (required):
bgmndata.tar.gz (49 kB)
- Example for phase analysis:
- Example for determination of amorphous content:
The UNIX examples does not include the *.geq files. These are
binary files troubling with the well known problem of big/low endian machines.
You must generate them with makegeq. This problem is solved for binary
measuring files (Siemens RAW and Philips RD format). Their endianess will be
corrected while reading them.
