Issue 51

P. Farazmand et alii, Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale, 51 (2021) 215-224; DOI: 10.3221/IGF-ESIS.51.17

Control specimen (AC)

SBS-modified specimen (SB)

Nanoclay-modified specimen (NC)

Zycotherm-modified specimen (Za)

Nanosilica-modified specimen (NS) Figure 7 : Results of SEM test for modified and non-modified specimens (Samples containing nanoparticles have also been taken for further zooming).

C OMPARISON OF QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE RESULTS he images shown in Figs. 6 and 7 are imported to the MATLAB software and the outputs are given in Tabs. 4 and 5.

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Specimen

Stripped percent (A)

Non-stripped percent (B)

C=(A/B)*100

AC Za Nc SB NS

19.26 6.55 5.34 0.61 1.16

80.74 93.45 94.66 99.39 98.84

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7 6 1 1

Table 4: MATLAB output for boiling water specimens

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