An Analytical Study on Penetration and Pore Pressure Dissipation of Piezocone Test in Typical Normally and Over-Consolidated Silty Clays

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

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Author Response

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Reviewer 2 Report

The manuscript presents an interesting approach, data and analysis to examine the piezocone penetration and pore pressure dissipation response of typical silty clays considering the influence of the over consolidation ratio.

The contribution is interesting and can be published after Minor revision. Some of them are suggested and presented below:

-       Be more specific in the last phrase of the abstract “The method of silty clay inversion proposed in this paper has high engineering value.”. It is too general.

-       Improve the introduction.

-       Rewrite the phrase “The cone penetrometer is widely used in situ test (Lunne et al., 2001).” Modify it for: “The piezocone is widely used in situ test (Lunne et al., 2001).

-       Modify “..... by a static load at a certain penetration rate of 20 ± 5 mm/s (ASTM D5778, 2007). Change the word static for quasi static

-        rewrite this phrase. “Silty clay is a kind of clay” .....  be more specific

-       What do you mean with “theory of hole expansion” mentioned more than once in the manuscript ? do you mean “cavity expansion theory?

-       Rewrite the phrase “simulating cone penetration and dissipation testing in clay.” Change testing by test

-       Include a reference that describes the used software Abaqus

-       In most of the parts of the manuscript use piezocone instead of CPTu, for example in the phrase “1. CPTu penetration simulation is a unit test and the value ..... use Piezocone stead CPTu

-       Rewrite the phrase “Standard size CPTu is study in the research..... by The standard size piezocone probe is considered in this research

-       Rewrite the phrase” The cone penetrometer was treated as a rigid body and interaction between the CPTu and soil ... by “The probe was treated as a rigid body and interaction between the piezocone and the soil.....

-       More information for the kaolin clay (Goh, 2003) and the Yellow River silty clay (Zhang, 2020) have to be presented, like typical grain size distribution and consistency limits and USCS classification

-       All the index in all the equations has to be presented in the manuscript, for example: define eN, pO, and so on. It has to be done for all the formulas

-       The formula V=vD/cv=100-1122. Be more specific on 110-1122

-       Review all the texts inside the figures. They also must be consistent. For example. OCR must be with capital letters, and Sigma v must be properly written

-       Figure 6 is not properly presented. It is not possible to identify a), b) and c)

-       Improve the last item of the manuscript: Summary and Conclusions, for example, be more specific in the last phrase of this item (Based on the FE results, the T* values corresponding to consolidation degree under different OCR are given)

-       Double check all the references. If they are properly cited in the manuscript and are in accordance with the rules of the journal

Finally, a professional English edition would be great to improve the quality of the manuscript

Author Response

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Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

Dear Authors,

Thank you for responding to the comments. The comments have been properly addressed in the revised version.

Thank you.