Examination of the Effects of Different Frequencies on Rock Fracturing via Laboratory-Scale Variable Amplitude Fatigue Loading Experiments

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

1-English needs to be checked
2-. What is the contribution to the knowledge of this manuscript?

3- I suggest strengthening the title by introducing the real novelty brought by this study.

4- At the end of the abstract, the major results could be given, also showing the percentages of improvement.

5-The real innovation of the study, and thus the reason for the research should be clearly stated at the end of the introduction, trying to emphasize how this study intends to overcome the gaps in the literature, and thus what the real contribution of this work is. This could be reported within a final subgraph of the introduction.

6- In the second paragraph dedicated to the methodology, it might be useful to include an overview of the method used, it might be helpful for the reader to see a bulleted list with all the steps followed by the proposed methodology, or a flow chart. The methodology presentation section should be implemented.

7- Please insert a short comment between two successive paragraph titles.

8-Descriptions of tables and figures in the text should be more detailed.

9-Please enrich the figure captions, they are currently too brief. If there are multiple pictures in some figures, they should be marked with letters of the alphabet and detailed in the captions.

10-Please also add all acronyms and parameters used and their meanings in the nomenclature table.

11. Conclusions are very poor and could be implemented. The authors should provide a compact but comprehensive summary of the main findings of the paper. Also, the innovation of the study should be implemented in the conclusions.

12- The similarity check attached is 28% and should be less than 18%.

13. Please cite and use the following reference in your work.https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/17260531211241167/full/html?fullSc=1

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Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

The Aothores requested to apply all of the comments on the Article.

Author Response

Thank you very much for your  review.I have modified English language and style required.Thank you.

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