“…STIMAN quantitative image analysis software was developed in Professor Sokolov's group at Moscow State University (Sergeev et al, 1984;Sokolov et al, 2004). This method, initially designed to study structure in porous rocks (Fayazov and Sokolov, 1992), has since been adapted for application to clay aggregate systems (Sokolov et al, 2007;Zbik et al, 2008). STIMAN methodology enables the analysis of poly-dispersed samples where the sizes of structural elements under investigation vary over a very wide range (from nm to mm).…”