Investigation of Guidewire Deformation in Blood Vessels Based on an SQP Algorithm
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Comments on grammar:
"et al." should always appear with an ending period, since it is a latin abbreviation.
Be consistent with the word "guidewire" (or "guide wire").
"Young's modulus" requires the first letter capitalized (page 3 etc.).
A space should (almost) always be used to separate the value and the unit (page 3 etc.).
Change "eqution" into "equations" in page 4 (after Equation 2).
Fix the vertical alignment of Equation 4 (and check the vertical alignment of the others).
Missing a period at the end of the sentence after Equation 7.
"Equation" and "Figure" in body text should always appear capitalized.
Fix the font size in Equation 8, and 12.
Missing a comma at the end of Equation 8, 22, and 23.
Missing a period at the end of several dotted list items (starting at page 4).
In Equation 16, b1 is a vector, so it should be written in boldface.
Change "arror" into "error" in page 10.
Change "Figure. 10" into "Figure 10" in page 11.
Change "Figure 12 (a-b) show" into "Figure 12 (a-b) shows" in page 12.
Comments on content:
The experiments presented in the paper present an error analysis limited to the 2D case, while the guidewire simulation runs in 3D. So, it seems appropriate to me, at least to address this issue in the final considerations on the error analysis.
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Reviewer 2 Report
Review of the article applsci-416438-v1 “Research on deformation simulation of guidewire in blood vessel based on SQP Algorithm” by L. Li, Q. Tang, Y. Tian, W. Wang, W. Chen and F. Xi.
The article presented an optimization based procedure for simulating deformation of guidewires inserted into blood vessels. Optimization results are consistent with finite element simulations and experimental results.
The subject of the study is very interesting and the article is well written. I suggest to publish the paper in Applied Sciences journals with the minor revisions suggested below.
Ø The title of the article should be changed as “Investigation of guidewire deformation in blood vessels based on SQP optimization” to better reflect the study.
Ø Recall the definition of the W matrix (it should be the constraint matrix) used in the SQP process.
Ø Eq. (19), pag. 6. Define L right after Eq. (19) as this parameter is actually defined much later in Section 3.1, pag. 7. This clarification will improve paper readability.
Ø Eq. (14), pag. 5. Does Le take the same value for all guidewire segments? Is it Le=L/n?
Ø The title of Section 2.5 should read “Summary of the proposed method”.
Ø The title of Table 1 should read “Input data for the two-point contact guidewire deformation problem”.
Ø The title of Table 2 should read “Input data for the three-point contact guidewire deformation problem”.
Ø The title of Table 3 should read “Input data for the ABAQUS simulation of the two-point contact guidewire problem”. Furthermore, in the first row, “Gpa” should read “GPa”; in the third row, “Constarint” should read “Constraint”.
Ø The caption of Figure 3 should read “Flow chart of the proposed method”. Furthermore, in the figure, “design variable” should read “design variables”; “constraint function” should read “constraint functions”. Please check numbers of equations corresponding to constraint functions reported in the flowchart.
Ø The caption of Figure 4 should read “Optimized deformed shape of the two-point contact guidewire for different values of qB”. Furthermore, add a legend in the figure to indicate the solutions corresponding to the different values of qB.
Ø The caption of Figure 5 should read “Optimized deformed shape of the three-point contact guidewire for different values of qC”. Furthermore, add a legend in the figure to indicate the solutions corresponding to the different values of qC.
Ø The caption of Figure 6 should read “Optimized guidewire shapes for different contact conditions”.
Ø The caption of Figure 7 should read “Deformation and stress distribution of the two point-contact guidewire computed by ABAQUS”.
Ø The caption of Figure 8 should read “Comparison of the optimized deformed shape of the two point-contact guidewire computed via SQP optimization or by ABAQUS”.
Ø The caption of Figure 9 should read “(a) Calculation error for the two point-contact guidewire; (b) Physical meaning of calculation error”.
Ø The caption of Figure 13 should read “Deformed guidewire shape optimized via SQP”.
Ø The caption of Figure 14 should read “Position errors on SQP optimized guidewire shape”.
Ø References should be listed more precisely. Please implement the following changes in the revised article.
- Ref. [23]. Use capital initial letters only for the first title word of proceedings papers;
- Refs. [22,25,27]. “Applied Sciences – Basel” should read “Applied Sciences”.
Ø The article reads well by most part although a number of editorial corrections should be implemented in the revised manuscript. The authors are kindly requested to check the consistency of the proposed changes with the original content of their article.
- Abstract, pag. 1. “design experiments proves” should read “designed experiments prove”
- Section 2.1, pag. 3. “shown in figure 1” should read “shown in Figure 1”
- Section 2.1, pag. 3. “young’s modulus of 3.56 Gpa” should read “Young’s modulus of 3.56 GPa”
- Section 2.2, pag. 4. “expressed as eqution (3-4)” should read “expressed as per Eqs. (3-4)”
- Section 2.3.2, pag. 5. “contact point, namely” should read “contact points, namely”
- Section 2.3.2, pag. 5. “design variable of” should read “design vector of”
- Section 2.4, pag. 6. “not the actual size” should read “not the actual magnitude”
- Section 3.1, pag. 7. “The table 1... information about the contact... The L in” should read “Table 1... information on contact... The L parameter in”
- Section 3.1, pag. 7. “takes from” should read “is equal to”
- Section 3.1, pag. 8. “The table 2... information about the contact” should read “Table 2... information on contact”
- Section 3.1, pag. 8. “takes from” should read “is equal to”
- Section 3.2, pag. 9. “In this paper... Figure 4.” should read “Here, ABAQUS is used to simulate the deformation of the guidewire for the two-point contact situation of Figure 4”
- Section 3.2, pag. 10. “So the plane” should read “Hence, the plane”
- Section 3.2, pag. 10. “calculation arror of” should read “calculation error at”
- Section 3.2, pag. 10. “understand that witn” should read “understand that from”
- Section 3.3, pag. 11. “that the ρ and time consuming of the algorithm (t) is affected by” should read “that the calculation error ρ and the time cost (t) of the algorithm depend on”
- Section 3.3, pag. 11. “promote the authenticity and real-time requirements of the simulation” should read “help to obtain reliable simulation results in real-time”
- Section 3.3, pag. 11. “time-consuming of the SQP algorithm corresponding to different discrete density” should read “computational cost of the SQP algorithm for different values of discrete density”
- Section 3.3, pag. 11. “Figure. 10 represents... time consuming” should read “Figure 10 represents... computational cost”
- Section 3.3, pag. 11. “to take value on curve” should read “to use curve”
- Section 3.4, pag. 11. “with 3D printer” should read “with a 3D printer”
- Section 3.4, pag. 11. “As the orange... is our” should read “The orange... correspond to our”
- Section 3.4, pag. 12. “reduce the time consumption” should read “reduce the computational cost”
- Section 3.4, pag. 12. “The table 4 and table 5 represent” should read “Tables 4 and 5 present”
- Section 3.4, pag. 12. “which has been” should read “which has been put”
- Section 3.4, pag. 14. “The equation (22)” should read “Equation (22)”
- Section 4, pag. 14. “The purpose of this paper is to” should read “This study aimed to”
- Section 4, pag. 14. “distribution of the color” should read “color map”
- Section 4, pag. 14. “the time-consuming of the algorithm” should read “the computational cost of the algorithm”
- Section 4, pag. 14. “the constraints and time-consuming” should read “the number of constraints and computational cost”
- Section 4, pag. 14. “on algorithm time consumption and algorithm simulation accuracy” should read “on computational cost and simulation accuracy of the algorithm”
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