Laboratory Evaluation of the Permeability Durability of Utilization of Oil Shale Waste as Fine Aggregate in Open Grade Friction Course in Seasonal Frozen Regions
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Manuscript needs grammatical corrections (highlighted in yellow) Chemical Composition of OSW in Table. 3 gives a total of 89.73 %, I suggest to include more oxide analysis as well as Loss on Ignition (LOI) to bring the Total closer to 100% If you look at the published papers, Methodology comes before Tests & Results and Discussion, it would be better if you bring Methodology before Tests (Topics 3 and 4)Author Response
Dear Editor and Reviewer,
We thank you very much for giving us an opportunity to revise our manuscript entitled “Laboratory Evaluation of the Permeability Durability of Utilization of Oil Shale Waste as Fine Aggregate in Open Grade Friction Course in seasonal frozen regions” (applsci-649555) by Wei Guo, Xuedong Guo, Xing Chen, Yingsong Li, Zhun Li, Yin An and Wenting Dai for publication in Applied Sciences.
We are thankful to the Reviewer and Editor for pointing out some important modifications needed in the paper. We have seriously taken into account of these comments. The explanations of what have changed in response to the reviewers’ comments are given point by point in the following pages attached in this letter.
We hope that all these changes fulfil the requirements to make the manuscript acceptable for publication in Applied Sciences.
Looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Best regards,
Wei Guo, Xuedong Guo, Xing Chen, Yingsong Li, Zhun Li, Yin An and Wenting Dai
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Reviewer 2 Report
This is a high quality piece of research, which I expect to have high impact in the field of interest.
The manuscript is well written, and is suitable for publication 'as is'
The authors should be congratulated for their efforts.
Author Response
Dear Editor and Reviewer,
We thank you very much for giving us an opportunity to revise our manuscript entitled “Laboratory Evaluation of the Permeability Durability of Utilization of Oil Shale Waste as Fine Aggregate in Open Grade Friction Course in seasonal frozen regions” (applsci-649555) by Wei Guo, Xuedong Guo, Xing Chen, Yingsong Li, Zhun Li, Yin An and Wenting Dai for publication in Applied Sciences.
We are thankful to the Reviewer and Editor for pointing out some important modifications needed in the paper. We have seriously taken into account of these comments. The explanations of what have changed in response to the reviewers’ comments are given point by point in the following pages attached in this letter.
We hope that all these changes fulfil the requirements to make the manuscript acceptable for publication in Applied Sciences.
Looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Best regards,
Wei Guo, Xuedong Guo, Xing Chen, Yingsong Li, Zhun Li, Yin An and Wenting Dai
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Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
Your manuscript need moderate grammatical corrections You have to move your computer mouse cursor on the corrections marked with red line to find the correct words to be re-written in the manuscipt. Your manuscript needs major revision.
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Author Response
Dear Editor and Reviewer,
We thank you very much for giving us an opportunity to revise our manuscript entitled “Laboratory Evaluation of the Permeability Durability of Utilization of Oil Shale Waste as Fine Aggregate in Open Grade Friction Course in seasonal frozen regions” (applsci-649555) by Wei Guo, Xuedong Guo, Xing Chen, Yingsong Li, Zhun Li, Yin An and Wenting Dai for publication in Applied Sciences.
We have studied reviewers’ comments carefully and have made revision which marked in red in the paper. We have tried our best to revise our manuscript according to the comments. To improve the quality of the article, the MDPI editing service was adopted. The attachment is MDPI editing certificate. In addition, we have also revised the grammatical issue raised by reviewers one by one.
We hope that all these changes fulfil the requirements to make the manuscript acceptable for publication in Applied Sciences.
Looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Best regards,
Wei Guo, Xuedong Guo, Xing Chen, Yingsong Li, Zhun Li, Yin An and Wenting Dai
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