Applicability Study on Modified Argillaceous Slate as Subgrade Filling for High-Speed Railway
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The paper presents the results of experiments and numerical analyzes of argillaceous slate modification as track bed filling for high-speed railways in the form of: cement and quicklime additives.
The work is interesting, but quite chaotic and not in line with the MDPI standard. The work contains many editorial errors, e.g.:
- line 10, 11, 31, ... - missing spaces before abbreviations
- line 33, 39, 42, 43, 44, 46, 55, ... - missing spaces before refs in []
- line 72 - wrong formatting of new section
- line 73 - wrong formatting of subsection
- line 120-126 - wrong font (smaller)
- line 130-134 - wrong font size
- figure 2 - to small figure - font used in fig should be similar as in the main text
- line 230 - fig7 instead of Figure 7
- and many more, mainly wrong format, missing spaces and text repetition.
The introduction is short and general, a broader view of the subject is, in my opinion, necessary.
Chapter 3 should be divided into two - 3) Results - with a short presentation of the results and 4) Discussion - with a longer discussion of the results obtained.
Chapters 4 and 5 should be integrated into new chapters 3-Results and 4_Discussion as subsections.
Conclusions in the form of sub-points are not a good habit. The last chapter should contain a short summary of the research carried out.
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Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
The manuscript has been revised according to the reviewers' recommendations, although the reordering of subsections is not in line with my suggestions. However, I believe it can be accepted for publication
