Strength and Deformation Characteristics of Carbon Fibre Reinforced Composite Wrapped Aluminium Foam Beams
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Revision of jcs-1870676
This work reports the fabrication of sandwich composites based on aluminum foam core between aluminium bar skins wrapped into CFRP. This sandwich presented better mechanical performance when compared to the conventional ones. The work is scientifically relevant and presents an interesting approach to sandwich composites for the automotive market. However, in my opinion, the paper needs to be improved to be able to publish on Journal of Composites Science. In this sense, I recommend Accept after minor revision.
Comments/Suggestions:
Comments with correction suggestions were introduced throughout the manuscript.
Comments for author File: 
Comments.pdf
Author Response
We rewritten parts and up dated the wordings and tables plus rewritten the conclusions too.
Reviewer 2 Report
A manuscript titled “Strength and deformation characteristics of carbon fibre reinforced composite wrapped aluminium foam beams” has been presented. The deformations and failure of the structures results indicate that application of aluminium face sheets with aluminium foam aids to prevent the delamination of the outer layers of carbon fibre reinforced polymers. It is noted that when carbon fibre reinforced polymers wrapped around aluminium foam sandwich structure, it enhances the structural performance without significant weight gain.
Following comment will be helpful to improve the manuscript.
Table 3 appears to be an image, please use same formatting for Table 3, as used in Table 1 and 2.
Units needs to be checked carefully. e.g. Line199: 150x22x15mm, either use 150mm x 22mm x 15mm or 150 x 22 x 15 mm^3.
Figures containing graphs are not of very good quality and needs to be improved and have consistency. Figure 5, 8, 10, 13, 16, 17. Use better readable font size for axis information and legends.
Remove figure border for figure 13.
Overall, the work is useful and is of interest for the readers.
Author Response
We have redone the figs and changed some of the wording as suggested to try and make it clearer for the reader
Reviewer 3 Report
The presents detailed mechanical characteristics of carbon fibre reinforced composite wrapped aluminium foam beams. However, the following points should be considered.
•English writing needs further improvement. Some suggestions are marked in the attached manuscript. See the comments in the pdf file. •Please provide the missing keywords. •At the end of Introduction, please state the novelty of the work with some research gaps. •Only Surname et al. should be provided for referencing within the text •Make sure you have copyright permission for external figures •Sections are not organized very well. 2. Materials and method and 3. Experimental results and discussion. It is bit confusing in the experimental section what the authors have done and what taken from literature. Please make this very clear. •Further discussions are required on the comparison between experimental and simulation results. Practical significance of this study also needs to be discussed. •Conclusion sounds more like discussions. Focus on the key points found from the results and other general analysis you can move into relevant results and discussions section.Comments for author File: Comments.pdf
Author Response
We have changed the wordings and figs. Updated fig 1 to one of our own as suggested. The conclusion is rewritten along with some of the other sections. Tables have been updated too
Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
Revision of jcs-1870676_Round#2
The authors did not pay attention to all comments in the PDF file. Please review the suggested fixes.
I this sense I recommend Accept after minor revision again.
Comments/Suggestions:
Comments with correction suggestions were introduced throughout the manuscript.
Comments for author File: Comments.pdf
Author Response
We have rewritten parts of the paper as requested
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Author Response File: Author Response.pdf
Reviewer 2 Report
Authors have addressed the comments and manuscript has been improved.
Table 3 fonts are still different, please rectify during final submissions.
Author Response
We have rewritten parts and table 3 font changed as requested
Reviewer 3 Report
thank you for making the changes. Looks fine to me.
Author Response
Many thanks we have rewritten parts to comply with the comments
Round 3
Reviewer 1 Report
Revision of jcs-1870676_Round#3
The authors corrected everything that was requested. In this regard, I recommend Accept in the present form.
Reviewer 2 Report
Authors have addressed the comments and paper may be accepted.
