May have briefly mentioned this previously(?) but some more 
Rietvelds, both by Luca Lutterotti, worth checking out 
follow.  Both use GUIs (Graphical user Interfaces) that
enable evaluation and useage with minimal activation
energy.

1.  Rietquan for Windows 
2.  MAUD for Java 
(Rietveld-Quant-Stress-Texture)

 http://www.ing.unitn.it/~luttero/
UK:
 http://www.ccp14.ac.uk/ccp/web-mirrors/lutterotti/~luttero/
Australia;
 
ftp://ftp.minerals.csiro.au/pub/xtallography/ccp14/ccp/web-mirrors/lutterotti/~luttero/index.html

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Rietquan for Windows includes a setup installer
(with instructions in Italian - but the installed
program uses English).  Via a GUI (Graphical User
Interface) it does:
  Quantitative phase analysis of crystalline and
    amorphous phases.
  Microstructural analysis of crystallite size 
    and r.m.s. microstrain
  Database and "automatic" refinement mode.
  Can use CIF and ICSD file formats.
  Is being replace by MAUD Rietveld for JAVA.

 http://www.ing.unitn.it/~luttero/rietquan/rietquan_20.html
UK:
 http://www.ccp14.ac.uk/ccp/web-mirrors/lutterotti/~luttero/rietquan/rietquan_20.html
Australia;
 
ftp://ftp.minerals.csiro.au/pub/xtallography/ccp14/ccp/web-mirrors/lutterotti/~luttero/rietquan/rietquan_20.html

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The replacement for Rietquan is the developing "MAUD for
Java" (thus in theory platform independent) which has
installers/distributions for Windows and Mac.

"MAUD stands for Material Analysis Using Diffraction. 
It is based on the RITA/RISTA method by H.-R. Wenk, 
S. Matthies and L. Lutterotti (see references).  Other 
researchers contributing to the development of the 
methodology include M. Ferrari (micromechanic), 
N. C. Popa (for the Line Broadening), R. W. Grosse-Kunstleve 
with SgInfo and M.De (official tester)."

MAUD is heavily under development.

 http://www.ing.unitn.it/~luttero/maud/maud.html
UK:
 http://www.ccp14.ac.uk/ccp/web-mirrors/lutterotti/~luttero/maud/maud.html
Australia;
 
ftp://ftp.minerals.csiro.au/pub/xtallography/ccp14/ccp/web-mirrors/lutterotti/~luttero/maud/maud.html


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Again, have not used this in anger but in terms of
low activation energy to start testing out the 
software/cross-validation of other Rietveld results,;
these both look real goers.  

Lachlan.

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