The addition of SMC did not affect linear shrinkage (LS) and weight losses (WL).
On one hand, LS is not strongly influenced by the addition of SMC.
Fig. 2 shows how LS ranges from a minimum of 5.5% to a maximum of 6.4%.
These values were higher than the related in literature [31], where LS reports values from 0.22% to 0.4%, but it follows the same trend.
On the other hand, WL varies slowly from 12.5% to 14% when 17% of SMC is added (see Fig. 3). Same results were shown in previous research [31] (range from 9.25% to 14.46%). It must be noticed, weight losses were lower than expected if it is considered total amount of organic material introduced by SMC. This can be