The Effects of a Zirconia Addition on the Compressive Strength of Reticulated Porous Zirconia-Toughened Alumina
, In-Hyuck Song 1 and Kyoung-Seok Moon 2,*,†Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Interesting work with a good potential usability.
However, your presentation of methods and results as well as your discussion is rumbling and requires re-writing to enhance clarity. In addition, your graphs need to be re-prepared with clearer descriptions and without the titles.
Minor English revision is also necessary.
Author Response
Response to Reviewer 1 Comments
Point 1:
Interesting work with a good potential usability. However, your presentation of methods and results as well as your discussion is rumbling and requires re-writing to enhance clarity. In addition, your graphs need to be re-prepared with clearer descriptions and without the titles. Minor English revision is also necessary.
Response 1:
We thank the reviewer for this useful suggestion. This paper was written as a flow to improve the compressive strength by changing the experimental conditions of reticulated porous ZTA. In this respect, the paper has been well presented for the flow. In addition, the graph has been revised according to what the reviewer kindly pointed out. English has been edited by native speakers. We thank the reviewer again for this very important point.
Reviewer 2 Report
The manuscript is well-written and nicely presented, with a good balance of descriptive text and discourse and illustration. The article gives an interesting scientific perspective on a field of reticulated porous zirconia-toughened alumina. This work intended to write about the effect of zirconia addition strength. However, the optimal compressive strength is not clear at the different applications: molten metal filters, diesel particulate filters (DPF), catalyst carriers, and radar-absorbing materials…
The work must be completed with exact statistical analysis.
Author Response
Response to Reviewer 2 Comments
Point 1:
The manuscript is well-written and nicely presented, with a good balance of descriptive text and discourse and illustration. The article gives an interesting scientific perspective on a field of reticulated porous zirconia-toughened alumina. This work intended to write about the effect of zirconia addition strength. However, the optimal compressive strength is not clear at the different applications: molten metal filters, diesel particulate filters (DPF), catalyst carriers, and radar-absorbing materials…
The work must be completed with exact statistical analysis.
Response 1:
This comment was very helpful in enhancing the quality of our paper. Revised according to what the reviewer kindly pointed out. An acceptable compressive strength range for reticulated porous ceramic applications is around 1 MPa. We consequently prepared a reticulated porous ZTA with a compressive strength value of 4.17 MPa. Therefore, implying that reticulated porous ZTA can be potentially used to reticulated porous ceramic applications such as diesel particulate filters (DPF) and radar-absorbing materials. We thank the reviewer again.
