Influence of Natural Fiber Content on the Frictional Material of Brake Pads—A Review

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

1. The sentences on Line 77-79, line 155-157 could not be understood.

2. The text size of this paragraph (line 123-129) is different from others.

3. Line 162, ‘Table 1’ should be ‘Table 3’ and this table needs to be carefully redesigned. For example, 1, too much text in the table content. The unit of wear rate could be inserted into the content of wear rate or converted into a uniform unit so that the readers can make a comparation.

4. The number of tables should be reordered in the whole manuscript.

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Reviewer 2 Report

The current study is on a topic of relevance and general interest to the readers of the journal. I found the paper structure to be overall well designed and felt confident that the authors performed careful and thorough review of the "Influence of Natural Fiber Content on the Frictional Material of Brake Pads". However, few sentences in the manuscript need grammatical/typographical modifications. Also, few elements of the manuscript such as figures need mazor improvements. Hence, I recommend mazor revisions to this paper.

Mazor revisions: 

1. Please correct the grammatical and typo errors throughout the manuscript. For examples, Table 3 captions mentions "Table 1", and Table 4 caption mentions "Table 2".  Also, "breaking pad" is mentioned as "barking pad" on page 3.

2. The figures (1-5) can be significantly improved. I suggest to replot it on LaTex, MatLab or Origin to give it more professional appearance. Also, please indicate the error bars wherever applicable. 

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Reviewer 3 Report

A few minor edits required. Marked on the attached.

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Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

The revised manuscript can be accepted in this journal. Authors have addressed all the issues raised in the manuscript.

Reviewer 2 Report

The authors have followed all my suggestions and resolved the issues with the previous draft. I recommend that the revised draft gets accepted for publication.

Reviewer 3 Report

Great improvements - thanks.