Fire-Resistance Testing Procedures for Construction Elements—A Review

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

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Reviewer 2 Report

This paper has done a good job for reviewing the fire resistance testing procedures for construction materials, the results might be useful for researchers for designing the relative experiments. But I think the structure of this article can be improved and more organized. In Figure 4, the differences between the standards are not very clear, please re-draw the figure.

 

Author Response

Comment 1. This paper has done a good job for reviewing the fire resistance testing procedures for construction materials, the results might be useful for researchers for designing the relative experiments. But I think the structure of this article can be improved and more organized. In Figure 4, the differences between the standards are not very clear, please re-draw the figure.

Reply 1.  We are thankful to the reviewer for his positive comments. Further, as per the suggestion of the reviewer, the structure of the article has been revised to make it more organized. Also, Figure 4 has been modified and added to the revised manuscript.

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Reviewer 3 Report

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Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

Table 1, row 17: Change to ASTM E152 (ASTM E152152 does not exist)

Table 6: References to all 22 tests must be added

Reviewer 3 Report

The authors answered all major reviewers’ comments and the quality of the paper increased.

Congratulations.