A Novel MRE Adaptive Seismic Isolator Using Curvelet Transform Identification
, Mohammad Noori 3,*, Zele Li 1,*, Ying Zhao 1, Seyed Bahram Beheshti Aval 4, Ehsan Noroozinejad Farsangi 5,*, Ramin Ghiasi 1 and Ahmed Silik 1Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The results are good. While there is no description of mechanisms at the level of individual magnetic particles, this approach is quite possible.
Shown good effect of adding MWCNTs to MRE
The mechanism for the effectiveness of MWCNTs when added to the MRE is not discussed
Very long article, one may be shorten
Author Response
Responses to Reviewers’ Requests:
Reviewer: 1
Comments to the Author
The results are good. While there is no description of mechanisms at the level of individual magnetic particles, this approach is quite possible.
Shown good effect of adding MWCNTs to MRE
The mechanism for the effectiveness of MWCNTs when added to the MRE is not discussed
Very long article, one may be shorten
Response: the manuscript is revised based on respected reviewer’s comment.
Reviewer 2 Report
The paper presents a study about magnetorheological elastomeric material as candidate for designing seismic isolators. The study has been made by using the curvelet technique to assess the reliability of the material under investigation.
The paper is interesting, well written and presented and it deserves to be accounted for publication. Some comments are reported in the attached PDF.
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Author Response
Responses to Reviewers’ Requests:
Reviewer: 2
Comments to the Author
The paper presents a study about magnetorheological elastomeric material as candidate for designing seismic isolators. The study has been made by using the curvelet technique to assess the reliability of the material under investigation.
The paper is interesting, well written and presented and it deserves to be accounted for publication. Some comments are reported in the attached PDF.
I suggest to reduce the length of abstract. It seems to be large
Response: the abstract has the important description of the present work, and due to the several methods discussed in paper the abstract seems to be long, but the total words are 310 words which is within the acceptable range of applied sciences journal.
Despite the above sentence, I suggest to mention at least two or three works about the application to MRE in civil applications.
Response: the references 17, 18, 19, 21 are works related to the application of MRE in structures and civil applications.
Also for introduction, I suggest to reduce the length.
Response: the manuscript introduces several methods and the introduction covers the background on all these methods, we tried to reduce the paper, however, we realized that unfortunately if we do too much reduction, the main objectives of the paper will not be understood. Nevertheless, we made some reduction.
Figure 2, please, re-edit figures and include subcaptions in the caption. In addition, why do not the curves start from 0-0?
Response: We made the modifications, thanks for the suggestion. It should be clear that the value of strain is equal to 0 at stress level of 0 MPa.
In Equation 15, maybe a list of symbols is necessary
Response: the symbols definitions are stated now above or in Figure 6.
In Figure 12, which software did you use?
Response: ANSYS. It is now stated.
Figure 12, Please, re-edit figures and include subcaptions in the caption. In addition.
Response: Modified.
