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Acknowledgments

We wish to thank the Department of Energy for research funding (award No. DE-FGO2- 91ER45460/A003). We also gratefully acknowledge the National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center for Advanced Cement-Based Materials for supporting this work, and R.J. Lee, Inc. for partially funding the development of the 2-D shrinkage finite element algorithm. CMN wishes to thank NIST for support during an extended visit, during which most of this work was accomplished. Lastly, special thanks to Prof. A.R. Day for helpful conversations and original contributions regarding development of the finite element code.