Effect of Bamboo Culm Grading on the Properties of Flattened Bamboo Boards
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Dear Authors,
I have read the article entitled „Effect of Bamboo Culm Grading on the Properties of Flattened Bamboo Boards".
The aim of the present work was to provide a theoretical base to optimize the use of bamboo for high-quality FBB products. In this study, round bamboo culms have been used and graded by the Hardness modulus (HM) method; the corresponding relationship between HM and the physical and mechanical properties of FBB have been evaluated.
The subject falls within the scope of the Journal. The title and abstract reflect the content. The introduction initiates the reader on the subject. The manuscript has well-prepared content. All tables and figures are mentioned in the text. Comments and comparisons with other works in the field give a better understanding of the subject. A very well-selected list of references was used. Results of the study may have brief practical applications.
I have just few short observations:
Page 2 lines 55-58: ISO standards….please rephrase.
All standards used in the article must be listed in the Reference list.
Page 2 lines 94-95: be more specific
Page 4 line 139: total number of samples? 120?
Page 8 line 261: provide other obtained values for MOE of FBB
Page 9 line 272:…bending properties…
I hope my revision was of help.
Author Response
Dear Reviewer：
Thank you for your letter and comments concerning our manuscript entitled “Effect of Bamboo Culm Grading on the Properties of Flattened Bamboo Boards” (ID: forests-2405324). Those comments are all valuable and very helpful for revising and improving our paper, as well as the important guiding significance to our researches. We have studied comments carefully and have made correction which we hope meet with approval. Revised portion are marked in the paper. The main corrections in the manuscript and the responds to the comments are following:
Page 2 lines 55-58: ISO standards….please rephrase.
Response：Sorry for not organizing the language properly. We have rephrased it.
All standards used in the article must be listed in the Reference list.
Response：We are sorry for the omission here and the references are added at the end of the article.
Page 2 lines 94-95: be more specific
Response：We put the expression of specific HM test method here, hoping to read more smoothly.
Page 4 line 139: total number of samples? 120?
Response：In the experiment of physical and mechanical properties, for each test, we selected and produced at least 6 samples from FBBs corresponding to each grade.
Page 8 line 261: provide other obtained values for MOE of FBB
Response：We added the MOE and MOR of the minimum value for MOE of FBB.
Page 9 line 272:…bending properties…
Response：We are sorry for our negligence of the expression. We have changed it to bending properties.
Special thanks to you for your good comments.
Best regards,
Yurong Zong.
E-mail: [email protected]
Author Response File: 
Author Response.docx
Reviewer 2 Report
Title: Effect of Bamboo Culm Grading on the Properties of Flattened Bamboo Boards
Author: Zhong et al.
General
This article describes the mechanical properties of bamboo in correlation with its hardness. The article is written in a clear way, but the authors could have presented the results condensed and reduced the comments, which are mostly repetitive.
Specific
L55-58 Unclear sentence. You are just naming the standard without meaning
L97 – “t1 and t2 are the wall 97 thicknesses of the bamboo culm where”- What wall thicknesses? Make the figure with t1 and t2.
Equation 1 – What is the source of the equation? Cite the literature!
Figure 1b – The text in yellow is not clear and visible.
L117 – Put the pressure in MPa and not kgf/cm2
Figure 2 – The resolution of the figure is very low and some part of figure are unclear. Increase the resolution!
L134 – The standard GB/T 15780-1995 is not cited and listed in references.
L142 – “Figure 4(A) shows typical load-indentation depth relationship curves of 9 grades”- the legend of different grades in figure 4 is missing!
Figure 7 and others – What are representing the error bars – min/max or standard deviation?
Author Response
Dear Reviewer：
Thank you for your letter and comments concerning our manuscript entitled “Effect of Bamboo Culm Grading on the Properties of Flattened Bamboo Boards” (ID: forests-2405324). Those comments are all valuable and very helpful for revising and improving our paper, as well as the important guiding significance to our researches. We have studied comments carefully and have made correction which we hope meet with approval. Revised portion are marked in the paper. The main corrections in the manuscript and the responds to the comments are following:
L55-58 Unclear sentence. You are just naming the standard without meaning
Response：We are sorry for not organizing the language properly. We have rephrased it.
L97 – “t1 and t2 are the wall 97 thicknesses of the bamboo culm where”- What wall thicknesses? Make the figure with t1 and t2.
Response：We added a figure (Figure 1. HM test sample and its cross section) with the position of t1 and t2.
Equation 1 – What is the source of the equation? Cite the literature!
Response：We are sorry for the omission here and the references are added at the end of the article.
Figure 1b – The text in yellow is not clear and visible.
Response：We reedited the image so that the text is highlighted.
L117 – Put the pressure in MPa and not kgf/cm2
Response：We have converted 10kgf/cm2 to 0.98MPa.
Figure 2 – The resolution of the figure is very low and some part of figure are unclear. Increase the resolution!
Response: We feel very sorry for our negligence. We have replaced unclear figure with higher resolution picture.
L134 – The standard GB/T 15780-1995 is not cited and listed in references.
Response：We are sorry for this omission. We have added the standard references.
L142 – “Figure 4(A) shows typical load-indentation depth relationship curves of 9 grades”- the legend of different grades in figure 4 is missing!
Response：We have added the legend of different grades.
Figure 7 and others – What are representing the error bars – min/max or standard deviation?
Response：In this paper the error bars represented standard deviation.
Special thanks to you for your good comments.
Best regards,
Yurong Zong.
E-mail: [email protected]
Author Response File: Author Response.docx
