Review Reports

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The paper presented a review on the strain rate effect on the thermomechanical behavior of Ni-Ti SMA. The paper should be revised before it can be accepted. The authors should consider the following comments:

1. What new information this review paper summarized that will be useful for future research studies?

2. It is not clear if the authors focused on SMA bars, wires or plates? Please clarify.

3. What are the research gaps and future research directions?

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Reviewer 2 Report

Dear authors, thank you for submitting your study to MDPI Metals journal. I have a few comment to do to the present study:

 

The Title is good. However there are several types of “Review” formats, which should be made cleared in the title which review is being addressed.

 

I suggest the authors to place the keywords by alphabetic order.

 

Regarding the sentence: “We start reviewing the experimental results…”, I recommend the authors to avoid personal pronouns.

 

The aim sentence is very long, but explains well the objectives. However the rationale for the study, previous to the aim sentence, is not totally clear. May the authors explain a little better why we need this review?

 

The review it self is globally fine, and addresses a few relevant points. Others could be added but probably no possible to over extend the review much more. I just suggest to add the MDPI Materials manuscript (DOI: 10.3390/ma15238367) to the debate.

 

The authors end with a “Conclusions” sub-heading, since this is not an experimental study, I suggest replacing it by a “Final remarks” sub-heading.

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Reviewer 3 Report

Introduction

Please, avoid large amount of cictation at one place , such is [10-32].

Experimental

Figure 2. A general plot of the martensitic transformation stress (??) and the austenite yield stress (??) as functions of the strain rate. - please include the appropriate refrence.

Figure 3 and 4, with ref [10] cited, could not be found in ref [10]. Please use the appropriate reference.

Fig.8. is the same as the Fig.3. from reference [41]. The same is for Fig.9., is is same as Fig.3. ref [44], Fig 10, the same situation,  Fig 11 as fig. 8 from [45] and fig.12. from [46], Fig.15. from ref [57] (different authors) Is that allowed?

Are the 3.1. Thermal source models original discussion ?

Please,check the status of other cited figures, as some could not be acsessed.

 

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Round 2

Reviewer 2 Report

Dear authors, I have no more comments. Thank you. 

Reviewer 3 Report

After corrections, in present state this manuscript is acceptible for publication.