Aggressiveness of Different Ageing Conditions for Three Thick Marine Epoxy Systems
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
I have few suggestions to improve the scientific level of the paper:
- In title, the word ‘Aggressiveness’ is not appropriate.
- In first sentence of abstract, the word ‘submitted’ is not appropriately used. The abstract should be single paragraph.
- The sentence: All the systems were immersed in artificial seawater at 35 °C for several weeks and in natural sea- 19 What does mean by ‘several weeks’? This is vague statement, authors should be more specific.
- Introduction is very general, authors should critically review the published literature to arrive the research gap.
- Authors should compare their results with the previous reports on similar work.
Author Response
We thank this reviewer for her/his fruitful comments.
I have few suggestions to improve the scientific level of the paper:
- In title, the word ‘Aggressiveness’ is not appropriate.
We do think the word “Aggressiveness” is appropriate to mean the severity, the harshness of the ageing conditions. Indeed, this word is often used in other publications:
- Duan, Z., Man, C., Dong, C., Cui, Z., Kong, D., wang, L., Wang, X. Pitting behavior of SLM 316L stainless steel exposed to chloride environments with different aggressiveness: Pitting mechanism induced by gas pores, (2020) Corrosion Science, 167, art. no. 108520.
- Panchenko, Y.M., Marshakov, A.I., Nikolaeva, L.A., Igonin, T.N., Evaluating the Reliability of Predictions of First-Year Corrosion Losses of Structural Metals Calculated Using Dose-Response Functions for Territories with Different Categories of Atmospheric Corrosion Aggressiveness, (2020) Protection of Metals and Physical Chemistry of Surfaces, 56 (7), pp. 1249-1263.
- Sahraoui, Y., Benamira, M., Nahal, M., Nouadria, F., Chateauneuf, A. The effect of welded joint repair on a corroded pipeline reliability subjected to the hardness spatial variability and soil aggressiveness (2020) Engineering Failure Analysis, 118, art. no. 104854,
- Khudyakov, O.I., Reshotkin, O.V., Demin, D.V., Velikotskiy, M.A. Monitoring of mechanisms of formation of corrosive aggressiveness of soils and grounds of underground gas pipeline routes and on its basis assessment of service life of gas pipes in various soil-climatic zones (2020) IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 921 (1), art. no. 012012.
- Schreiner, F., Hanke, S., Skoda, R. Assessment of flow aggressiveness and erosion damage topography for different gap widths in ultrasonic cavitation testing (2021) Wear, 484-485, art. no. 203989 .
- In first sentence of abstract, the word ‘submitted’ is not appropriately used. The abstract should be single paragraph.
The abstract was modified.
- The sentence: All the systems were immersed in artificial seawater at 35 °C for several weeks and in natural sea- 19 What does mean by ‘several weeks’? This is vague statement, authors should be more specific.
The sentence was modified.
- Introduction is very general, authors should critically review the published literature to arrive the research gap.
The introduction was modified to emphasize the goal of this work.
- Authors should compare their results with the previous reports on similar work.
Our results were discussed and compared to the literature.
Reviewer 2 Report
Dear author,
Please see the attached file and also please respond to all comments point by point.
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Author Response
Please see the attachment.
We thank this reviewer for her/his constructive remarks and comments.
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Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
Authors have improved most parts of the paper by considering my comments. However, they did not properly compared the results with the published literature. They just cited the references without discussing their work.
Author Response
The results are now compared to the literature. Please see the modifications highlighted in blue in the revised manuscript.
Reviewer 2 Report
The revised version of the manuscript looks fine and now can be accepted in this journal.
Congratulations!
Author Response
We thank the reviewer for her/his nice message
