A Mathematical Analysis of the Stress Statement of the Soil Basis under Complex Loading near the Retaining Wall

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Many sentences inside the manuscript are meaningless and full of grammatical errors. Hence, it cannot be reviewed and considered a qualified paper for publication in an internationally credible journal.

 

 

Many sentences inside the manuscript are meaningless and full of grammatical errors. Hence, it cannot be reviewed and considered a qualified paper for publication in an internationally credible journal.

 

Author Response

We have corrected the grammatical issues pointed out in the manuscript and the accompanying figures and tables. The manuscript has been verified by the service grammarly.com.

Reviewer 2 Report

The manuscript has a mathematical analysis of the stress statement of the soil basis under complex loading near the retaining wall. A very interesting work. Here is some comments

1 Please add the following sentence in Line 64

 

"In estimating stress strain field research has been made in terms of evolving methods in the scientific fields of uncertainty quantification and Machine Learning. Specifically, Savvides and Papadopoulos formed a Feed Forward Neural Network that estimate failure stresses and strains in Shallow Foundations formed through Stochastic Finite Element Analysis following Savvides and Papadrakakis which estimated stress strain field through uncertainty estimation. Moreover, Chwala and Pula has provided an analysis for the bearing capacity and the stress strain field in two layered soil with uncertainty while Fenton and Griffiths did the same for the Mohr Coulomb φ-c parameters. "

 

Where the references are

 

Savvides, A.-A.; Papadopoulos, L. A Neural Network Model for Estimation of Failure Stresses and Strains in Cohesive Soils. Geotechnics 2022, 2, 1084-1108. https://doi.org/10.3390/geotechnics2040051

Savvides A A Papadrakakis M. A computational study on the uncertainty quantification of failure of clays with a modified Cam-Clay yield criterion. SN Appl. Sci. 3, 659 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-021-04631-3

 

M Chwala and W Pula  Evaluation of shallow foundation bearing capacity in the case of a two-layered soil and spatial variability in soil strength parameters PLOS ONE (2020) https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0231992

 

  G. Fenton and D. V. Griffiths Bearing Capacity Prediction of spatially random c-φ soils (2004) http://random.engmath.dal.ca/rfem/papers/bearing2.pdf

2 Please enter the analytical relations all in an elegant Appendix

3 Be more specific about element mesh sensitivity of line 177

Nothing to comment. Just a minor check to be made

Author Response

We have added citations for research of Savvides and Papadrakakis, Chwala and Pula and Fenton and Griffiths. Also, we added more specific information about element mesh sensitivity. We appreciate your comments.

Reviewer 3 Report

I think that the authors have done a great effort to produce important advances in the determination difficult aspects of soil mechanics.

Author Response

Thank you a lot for your review of our article