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Failure Mechanism of Back-Break in Bench Blasting of Thin Terrane

Appl. Sci. 2021, 11(6), 2577; https://doi.org/10.3390/app11062577
by Dong Wei 1,2, Ming Chen 1,2,*, Wenbo Lu 1,2 and Zhihua Wang 1,2
Reviewer 1: Anonymous
Reviewer 2:
Jiliang Li
Reviewer 3: Anonymous
Appl. Sci. 2021, 11(6), 2577; https://doi.org/10.3390/app11062577
Submission received: 22 February 2021 / Revised: 7 March 2021 / Accepted: 8 March 2021 / Published: 13 March 2021
(This article belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The manuscript “Failure Mechanism of Remaining Rock in Bench Blasting of Thin Terrane” describes interesting subject. The manuscript has a few minor mistakes, more of cosmetic type.

Specific comments are as follows:

  • Line 66 – after the word “sure” there are two dots
  • Line 164 – the equation number in text does not correspond to the actual equation number (6 instead of 5)
  • Line 181 – the equation numbers in text does not correspond to the actual equation numbers (7-8 instead of 6-7)
  • Figure 5 – all text and legend are blurry and unreadable
  • Section 312-331 – there are several mistakes that should be rechecked and corrected (line 317 – word “forword” is written incorrectly; line 318 – sentence is unfinished; line 327 – after the word “plane” missing punctuation mark or capital “I” of the following word is amiss)
  • Line 366-367 – REMOVE IN PRINT
  • Figure 8 – black line is not clearly visible, thus recommending making rock strata in lighter colors or black should be slightly thicker
  • Line 384 – the Figure number in text does not correspond to the actual Figure number (10 instead of 9)
  • Line 497 – Number of the conclusion part should be “2”
  • Line 504-510 – in the conclusion part (3) first two sentences are very similar, kindly recheck

Author Response

Thanks for your suggestions. Please see the attachment.We have revised and improved the article according to your suggestion.Please see the attachment.

Author Response File: Author Response.docx

Reviewer 2 Report

Congratulations on your paper submitted to MDPI

Author Response

Thank you for your suggestions and comments.

Reviewer 3 Report

This paper discusses the mechanism of back-break in bench blasting operations when bedding planes are dipping in the face and away from the face. Structural dynamics and numerical modeling are used to study the problem. The authors are advised to incorporate all of my comments. This will improve the quality of the paper. (see attached file)

Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

Author Response

Thank for your letter and for the reviews and comments concerning our manuscript. Those comments are all valuable and very helpful for revising and improving our paper, as well as the important guiding significance to our researches. We have studied the comments carefully and have made correction which we hope meet with approval. Many thanks for your constructive suggestion and great help. Please see the attachment.

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

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