Design and Mechanical Behavior of a Custom Adapter for Dimensional Stone Mining
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The design of machine prototype presented in the article should surely attract attention of experts in the field of limestone mining.
But the article itself should be clearer and some additional information need to be added to be more scientific.
Concrete comments and recommendations in attached file.
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Author Response
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Reviewer 2 Report
Ÿ A photo of actual test equipment should be displayed besides figure 2.
Ÿ Does Figure 3 show maximum or average force? Are thirty measurement cycles under exact same conditions?
Ÿ Line 155, is the force measured or calculated?
Ÿ Do you assume that cutting force is uniform on the chip area? Is this assumption valid?
Ÿ What is the size of model and number of element in simulation? Could a scale be added in Figure 4?
Ÿ Can any measurements be collected based on the prototype in Figure 6 and validated against FE simulation?
Ÿ There should be a conclusion section to highlight the findings.
Author Response
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Round 2
Reviewer 2 Report
Comments are addressed properly.
