Closed markbandstra closed 2 years ago
@jvavrek helpfully noted that there is a new revision of the Compendium available, and it is even available on a website for download as JSON. This will make this PR a bit easier and eliminate the need for parsing the PDF.
This PR will add additional materials commonly used in radiation modeling from the following reference:
McConn, Gesh, Pagh, Rucker, & Williams, "Compendium of Material Composition Data for Radiation Transport Modeling", PIET-43741-TM-963, PNNL-15870 Rev. 1which is available here.which is available in PDF and JSON form here.
The additional materials from this document will require an optional dependency on PyPDF2 to parse the data from the PDF document.Additional features in this PR:
dict
ofdict
s, making access to each individual material's data easier than the currentpandas.DataFrame
approach.Items to complete:
[ ] Update README to explain optional dependency