Selected Properties of Cement Bound Spruce and Larch Bark Bio-Aggregates
, Marius Cătălin Barbu 1,2, Thomas Pacher 1, Alexander Petutschnigg 1,3, Johannes Jorda 1 and Eugenia Mariana Tudor 1,2,*Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The research presented in the article examines the suitability of spruce bark and larch for the production of cement-bonded composites and provides potential guidance for future research. The Introduction is clearly explained with citations, Methods and Results are clearly described, and the Conclusion is very well presented. There are a suitable number of references that follow the topics. The Figures and Tables are appropriate interpreted and understandable.
There are small technical omissions in the text. Suggestions for text improvements and corrections are highlighted in comments and in yellow in the peer-reviewed article attached below. Thank you!
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Author Response
Dear Reviewer,
Many thanks for the improvement suggestions. We have updated the manuscript according to your recommendations and marked the changes as you proposed with green colour.
Best regards,
The authors
Reviewer 2 Report
The paper deals with the suitability of spruce and larch bark for the production of cement-bonded composites. However, some minor revisions are required before accepted for publication. Please revise the manuscript as per the recommendations given. This paper requires thorough proofreading. Please check the entire paper for the grammatical errors.
- The introduction needs to be written. The references need to elaborate. It needs to add some references.
- The quality of the figures needs to be further improved referring to the standards of journals.
- Lack of discussion on the findings. Authors just reporting their findings.
Author Response
Dear Reviewer,
Many thanks for the improvement suggestions.
We have updated the manuscript according to your recommendations as follows:
- Introduction: New information was added at Page 2, lines 75-76, 83, 85-89 and 91-99.
- The figures were replaced with higher resolution ones.
- The discussion of results was improved by adding two industrial manufactured products that belong to the composites with cement included in the lightweight category, namely Isolith (cement bonded wood wool composite) and Thermospan (cement bonded wood chips composite). At Page 10 were added lines 305-310, Figure 8 and at Page 11 lines 314-320.
Best regards,
The authors.
Round 2
Reviewer 2 Report
The authors considered the comments of the reviewer. The revised manuscript is improved. I have no further comments.
