Retraction notice to “Effect of CaCO3 whiskers on tensile properties of ultra-high-performance engineered cementitious composites” [J. Build. Eng. 57 (2022) 104896]

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/article-withdrawal). This paper is retracted at the request of the Editor-in-Chief. Following a complaint made by the Office of Research Integrity of the National Technical University (NTU) of Singapore, an investigation determined that the co-author “Toshiyuki Bangi” is fictitious; added to the paper by the corresponding author. NTU is in no way involved in this deception and the fictitious author was assigned a hotmail.com email address. Manipulation of authorship is a serious violation of publication ethics that distorts the research record and draws all aspects of the work into question. The corresponding author has admitted the deceit and understands the need for retraction.