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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The author would like to thank his many colleagues in the Building Materials Division at NIST who have contributed to this research, especially Dr. Edward Garboczi, who was instrumental in the early stages of the model development and the application of percolation theory to these materials. He would also like to thank V. Waller and F. de Larrard of Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chaussees, France for providing the experimental adiabatic heat signature data used in Figures 6 to 8 and Paul Stutzman of NIST for obtaining the real SEM images presented in Figure 10.