A New Probabilistic Ellipse Imaging Method Based on Adaptive Signal Truncation for Ultrasonic Guided Wave Defect Localization on Pressure Vessels
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The paper presents new algorithm of damage detection and localization based on ultrasonic waves propagation and probabilistic ellipse imaging method. The paper is interesting for researchers involved in the area of SHM. I didn't find any methodological or technical errors in the article. Also I didn't find any parts of the presentation which are unclear for potential readers. Nevertheless in my opinion the cited bibliography is very limited. Many paper utilizing ultrasonic waves and distributed sensors for damage detection have been published - for example teams Radzienski, Ostachowicz, Fu Kuo Chang, Boller, etc. I think that the bibliography should be extended on proper papers. Also the size of few Figures can be enlarge in order to improve their visibility
Author Response
We would like to thank the reviewers for your careful read and thoughtful comments on previous draft. We have carefully taken your comments into consideration in preparing our revision, which makes this article clearer and more compelling.
Combined with your comments, we have compiled the references. We have also edited some of the images in the article to improve their visibility.Thanks again for your reading and comments.
Reviewer 2 Report
Overall, the technical portion of the paper was good but there are numerous corrections that need to be made. The misspelled words should have been caught by the spell checker, so turn on spell checking. The fonts in many of the figures are too small to be read. Increase the fonts, or size of the figure to make them more readable. See attached file for corrections.
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We would like to thank the reviewers for your careful read and thoughtful comments on previous draft. We have carefully taken your comments into consideration in preparing our revision, which makes this article clearer and more compelling. Sentence problems and image and table formatting problems have been corrected in the article. Attachment is our response to the comments. Thanks again for all your comments and questions. Please feel free to contact us if any of the answers are unclear.
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