Stiffness Degradation under Cyclic Loading Using Three-Point Bending of Hybridised Carbon/Glass Fibres with a Polyamide 6,6 Nanofibre Interlayer
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Interesting topics !!
1. Please submit a formatted and fully checked paper. A lot of "Error! Reference source not found" in the pdf. !!
2. Why do you use 3-point bending instead of 4-point bending ?
3. how do you define "kink" ? any quantitative measure ?
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Author Response
- Please submit a formatted and fully checked paper. A lot of "error! Reference source not found” in the pdf.
Document hyperlinks where individually checked to prevent this error. Using Microsoft’s help center the problem was identified as the links need locking before pdf is created this should remove the issue.
- Why do you use 3-point bending instead of 4-point bending?
3-pt bending was used due to the short beam length due to the thin nature of the composite, a thin composite coupon was used initially to satisfy a 1:20 ratio. Which was 2 mm to 40 mm of span.
- How do you define "kink”? Any quantitative measure?
Addition of kink angle section was added to the publication detailing the fibre angle measurements as well as the measured fibre angle when kink banding occurred.
Reviewer 2 Report
The comments are given in the attached pdf file.
Comments for author File: Comments.pdf
Author Response
All comments are addressed within the document
Moderate English changes required, use of language editing software and revisions are made for spelling and grammar by the coauthors.
For the clarity of the presentation the graphics and figures were edited for consistence and further annotations were added. Re formatting included spacing the images, including horizontal lines within the figures to allow clarity of reading, and adjusting the sizing of all figures for constancy.
All graphics were readjusted to size 9 font using the Palatino linotype to conform with the rest of the document’s figures.
Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
The paper is OK and I believe it is ready to publish.
Reviewer 2 Report
The main weakness points have been addressed and improved
