Recycled Untreated Rubber Waste for Controlling the Alkali–Silica Reaction in Concrete

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The manuscript is defiantly shown a great effort of experiments, and it is worth to be published. However, I would like to address the following questions or comments to be taken into consideration when revising the manuscript:

1- Authors should improve the quality of all figures.

2- I do not see any characterization tests for mixtures (for example: shaking table tests?) It is essential to watch how the mixture behaves.

3- The details of specimen preparation are essential. For example, figures of the test specimens preparation process， please add them.

4- Are the dimensions of the molds associated with standards?

5- The conclusion must be reinforced.

6- It is better to have this paper extensively edited to improve the language.

7- Authors must be correct references according to the journal guidelines.

8- The introduction part is not fully cited, and a lot of cement research has been carried out, for example, Jiajian Li, Shuai Cao, Erol Yilmaz, and Yunpeng Liu. Compressive fatigue behavior and failure evolution of additive fiber-reinforced cemented tailings composites, Int. J. Miner. Metall. Mater. 2021.

In summary, the reviewer believes that this manuscript is recommended for publication through the abovementioned revisions.

Author Response

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Reviewer 2 Report

Dear Authors,

The manuscript is very interesting, but it needs a significant revision of the written English in terms of grammar and the lack of articles before nouns (e.g. Line 74 - "Similarly a study conducted by... showed a 50%..."). This occurs from the beginning till the end of the manuscript. It is imperative than an English-speaking person must revise the text of the manuscript.

In the attached manuscript follow some more comments and revisions in order to improve your manuscript.

Best regards

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Author Response

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Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

Now, this revised manuscript can be accepted in its present form.