A Synthetic Chart for Internal Stability Assessment of Soils Based on Soil PSD Curves

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

I do not understand the sentence « Many sizes of the particles and 32 the constriction size distribution–based geometrical methods ». The sentence must be rewritten

 

The introduction is badly written, more information about the physical phenomena must be given.

P1 L41 : Kezdi criterion and how it is processed is badly explained

P2 L46 more details must be given for Sherard criterion

P2 L91 the second argument (2) is hard to understand. Explain better what you mean. Sieve analysis is the most simple test in soil mechanics. For the third point (3), a digitalized PSD can allow to provide numerical computations. I cannot get the point. Explain better

P2 L108 There are 8 model parameters. If the relationship between the parameters and the PSD is given, the process for their identification which seems to be long and costly is not given

I cannot get what is really new in this article which is merely a compilation of previous works. The article does not provide valuable results for the community. It is well known that criteria using the PSD which are empirical are bound to fail in some cases.  Moreover, the way samples were created and the true homogeneity of samples in past studies is sometimes questionable.

 

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Reviewer 2 Report

The paper needs a strong revision.

1 figure 1 and figure 2 there is an english typo: UNSTABL instead of UNSTABLE. 

2 the template has not been followed: the captions at the end and the name in capitals in the reference.

3 Intorduction needs to be rewritten: the state of the art with citations of the other papers is necessary

4 the originality needs to be explicitly described in the introduction

5 the authors should define the aim of the paper as well

 

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Round 2

Reviewer 2 Report

The paper is now ready for acceptance

Author Response

Thank you very much for your conscientious edit and review for our manuscript.

Best regards,

Yongbiao Lai, Songsong Bai, Jian Hou, Zongqing Zhou, Qiangling Wu, Xiaobo Lv, Liming Yang, Weixun Cao, Zhengtao Ren