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Electronic Monograph

The VCCTL will incorporate, as a key part, many sophisticated material science models. However, in order to be able to use it as more than a "black box," there must be a strong education component available to any user. This component is the Electronic Monograph [2,3]. This is a web site set up like an electronic book, with chapters and sections, organized by a linked table of contents. Right now, the text in this monograph is the equivalent of over 1800 pages of single-spaced, 12pt font pages of written text. The monograph covers most of the computer modelling work on concrete carried out at NIST over the last 10 years and some of the experimental work, and could be classified as a virtual textbook on the computational materials science of concrete (see http://gemini.tntech.edu/~jbiernacki/Multi_Scale_Syllabus.html). It is regularly revised so as to stay up to date with new research developments at NIST, which is the world leader in the computational materials science of concrete. Many programs, written primarily in C and Fortran 77, are available for downloading. Planned growth of the monograph in the year 2001 includes addition of more educational software and incorporation of an electronic index (search engine).