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Although lower compared to some reports in the literature [ 43 , 68 , 74 , 75 , 76 , 77 ], which show compressive strength increases of 10% to 80%, depending on test age and NT content (1–4 wt.% NT), it can be said that the research results are in agreement with these reports, maintaining an increasing trend, and in contradiction with those indicated by Shekari and Razzaghi [ 60 ], who for a cementitious composite with 1.5% NTs report a reduction in compressive strength of 20.73% at the age of 28 days.
On this basis, with the whisker content increasing from 0% to 0.5%, the proportion of harmless holes in concrete showed a trend of first increasing and then decreasing, while the proportion of multi-damaged holes showed a trend of first decreasing and then increasing, and the proportion of harmless holes was the highest when the whisker content was 0.4% (HF4).
The only exception is represented by the epoxy composite containing the highest boric acid content; The results of mechanical tests in compression mode do not indicate a clear trend of the influence of boric acid content on the mechanical characteristics of the tested epoxy composites.