Study on Vibration Reduction Performance of Gear Pairs Made by a High-Strength Fe-Mn Damping Alloy

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Dear Authors

The article focuses on increasing the efficiency of gears by changing its materials. It looks like an interesting paper and is recommended for publishing after the major revisions. Please find attached file.

Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

Author Response

Dear reviewer,

We are sincerely grateful for the insightful and constructive comments. Those comments are very valuable and helpful for us to revise our manuscript, as well as the important guiding significance to our researches. We have studied comments carefully and have made correction which we hope meet with approval. We carefully present our response to the comments and related content is shown in the attachment.

Yours sincerely,

Wei Yang et al.

Author Response File: Author Response.docx

Reviewer 2 Report

The topic is interesting and much work was done, but in my opinion, some of the conclusions are not well supported/explained by the reported experimental results. This paper can be published only after a major revision involving a substantial reorganization of text and figures.

The following errors are found in the manuscript:

Figure 6. quality is poor. Please replace with better quality.

Figure 7 is missing.

Please eliminate double numbering of equations. Make it clear that this is an equation! For example:

…(5) (6) =  (6); (8) (9) = (9)

 

Conclusions: It is a summary rather than a conclusion. It should be rewritten.

Author Response

Dear reviewer,

  We are sincerely grateful for the insightful and constructive comments. Those comments are very valuable and helpful for us to revise our manuscript, as well as the important guiding significance to our researches. We have studied comments carefully and have made correction which we hope meet with approval. We carefully present our response to the comments and related content is shown in the attachment.

                                                   Yours sincerely,

Wei Yang et al.

Author Response File: Author Response.docx

Reviewer 3 Report

The manuscript titled “Study on Vibration Reduction Performance of Gear Pairs Made of High Strength Fe-Mn Damping Alloy” presented some good calculation and experimental results, whoever, significant improvement is required.

MAJOR COMMENTS

The abstract should contain the main findings of the work.

The introduction is based on a small amount of literature.

The conclusions need to be improved to showcase the novelty and the contribution from the investigation.

SUGGESTED IMPROVEMENTS

There are some shortcomings throughout the article that need to be corrected based on the comments in the attached file.

Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

Author Response

Dear reviewer,

We are sincerely grateful for the insightful and constructive comments. Those comments are very valuable and helpful for us to revise our manuscript, as well as the important guiding significance to our researches. We have studied comments carefully and have made correction which we hope meet with approval. We carefully present our response to the comments and related content is shown in the attachment.

Yours sincerely,

Wei Yang et al.

Author Response File: Author Response.docx

Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

Dear Authors

The present article can be accepted in the present form. 

Author Response

Dear reviewer, thanks for your approval.

Reviewer 2 Report

The authors carefully reviewed my comments and made corrections. Our response to the comments has been carefully described, and I will accept the revised article after minor modifications.

Minor improvements:  The scale is missing from Figure 6.

Author Response

Dear reviewer,

We are sincerely grateful for the insightful and constructive comments.We have studied comments carefully and have made correction as follows.

Point 1: The scale is missing from Figure 6.

Response 1: Thank you for your comments. The scale of Figure 6 is modified.

Reviewer 3 Report

Dear Authors,
The introduced corrections mainly improve the quality of work.
However, there are still two issues that need to be improved:
1. In Fig. 8 and 10, the strains take an incredibly small value. Steels of this type achieve a strain of at least 20%. Please explain or correct.
2. The entered description of strains contains information about the force sensor. However, in the tensile testing of specimens, an extensometer is used to measure elongation. Please see, eg. ASTM Standard E8/E8M − 13a and explain how the strains were obtained without such measurements.

Author Response

Dear reviewer,

We are sincerely grateful for the insightful and constructive comments. Those comments are very valuable and helpful for us to revise our manuscript, as well as the important guiding significance to our researches. We have studied comments carefully and have made correction which we hope meet with approval.  We carefully present our response to the comments, and related content is in the attachment.

Author Response File: Author Response.docx