Dynamic Mechanical Characteristics of Horseshoe Tunnel Subjected to Blasting and Confining Pressure
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The article should be treated as one of the attempts to solve the given problem. I hope that the authors will continue to work on the given task, looking for solutions using other methods.
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Reviewer 2 Report
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Reviewer 3 Report
Dear Authors,
The article lacks novelty. The article is similar to the article: "Influence of Blasting Disturbance on the Dynamic Stress Distribution and Fracture Area of Rock Tunnels".
In addition, the article lacks a description of the experiment. No information about the material. The material surrounding the tunnel is not concrete. No information on what JH means. One can only guess that it refers to the Johnson-Holmquist model. Wrong description of the Johnson-Holmquist model. The authors write: "The results of the SPHB experimental results are used for calibration of the parameters of JH model based on the reference literature [30,31], the parameters as shown in Table 1." There is no description of the model calibration process.
There is no information about the mesh and implementation of boundary conditions. The size of the area for numerical analysis was poorly chosen, as there is interaction of waves with the edge and their interference (Figure 4). This can significantly affect the final result of the calculations.
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Reviewer 4 Report
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Few improvement are needed in the manuscript
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Round 2
Reviewer 3 Report
Dear Authors,
This is not the first article to take into account gravitational and tectonic stress.
Moreover:
The designation T in most cases means temperature, so I propose PT.
l. 207 and Fig. 7-9 up1, up2, up3, down1 ... - the numbers should be like subscripts
Fig. 7 bottom of the page - should be Fig. 8
Fig. 7-9 subplot designations should not be in bold, e.g. (a), not (a)
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