Re: Materials in Fluka

Dear Vasilis,
thank you for the information. We updated Flair, and everything about
materials worked correctly.

Best regards,

Ernesto Amato

On mar, 2009-09-22 at 11:21 +0200, Vasilis Vlachoudis wrote:
> Dear Ernesto,
>
> Actually all these were corrected on the new release 0.7.7 that was
> uploaded on the web site yesterday!
> The error with the Soft tissue or SOFFICE was the use of Phosphorus that
> flair was creating the name assuming 8 characters PHOSPHOR while FLUKA
> liked the name with 7 characters. (There is a special check in the 0.7.7
> for that)
>
> Regards
> Vasilis
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-fluka-discuss_at_mi.infn.it
> [mailto:owner-fluka-discuss_at_mi.infn.it] On Behalf Of Ernesto Amato
> Sent: Tuesday, 22 September 2009 10:17
> To: fluka-discuss_at_fluka.org
> Subject: Materials in Fluka
>
> Dear all,
> we encountered a problem in the material choice:
>
> when we choose simple materials (i.e. elements, water, BGO, Soft tissue
> ICRU 4 components, ...) the simulation is carried out correctly and data
> files are produced.
>
> When, instead, other more complicated compounds are chosen (Soft tissue
> ICRP, or the material "SOFFICE" defined by us - please see the .inp file
> attached), the simulation seem to proceed through the Flair interface,
> but, instead, the data files are not produced and error messages appear
> in the .out file. Also this file is attached for reference.
>
> We use the Flair interface, and materials are chosen in or added to the
> material database.
>
> We also noticed that a if we insert a new material (SOFFICE) in the
> database, and we insert it in the input through the radial button, after
> restarting Flair the material disappears from database.
>
> Finally, we noticed that, when one inserts a new material, the .inp file
> is not always updated by the "save" command in Flair.=20
>
> Thank you,
>
> Ernesto Amato
>
>
> --
> Dr. Ernesto Amato, PhD
> EP - Physicist
> University of Messina - Italy
> Department of Radiological Sciences
> Nuclear Medicine Unit
> email: ernesto.amato_at_unime.it
> tel: +39 090 221 2942/3789
> fax: +39 090 221 2843
>
Received on Wed Sep 23 2009 - 17:22:06 CEST