The Fire Resistance of Transformable Barriers: Influence of the Large-Scale Factor

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The paper presents the results of the development of a multi-layer protective product, which is a transformable fire barrier, installed in buildings and structures to limit the spread of dangerous factors of fire. The research aspects are quite useful and beneficial, comments can be found below,

1.       How to define the so called “large-scale factor” in the title?

2.       The novelty of your work should be clear and additionally highlighted, together with the objectives of your research, in the last paragraph of the Introduction.

3.       The numerical methods should be verified by comparing with the experimental data and the existing theoretical works.

4.       Influence of fire fiber parameters on structure heating in Fig. 5 is confusing and blurry, I suggest change the form as the tendency line.

5.       As only limited conditions are changed, how general do you think the conclusions are?

 Minor editing of English language required

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Reviewer 2 Report

Abstract: On the line 9 and 10 you wrote "the spread of dangerous factors of fire"- The factors don't spread! It could be the fire effluents, smoke, heat.

To many keywords. Delete "simulation" and "experiment".

Introduction: The same observation as above, on the line 25 (idem line 31) you wrote "allows fire hazards to spread", and also on the next row. Fire hazards don't spread.

Line 31: the fire seat instead of "the seat of fire"

Line 46: Wrong citation: Instead of "In [6]...", write "Gao and co. [6] performed a series of test...etc"

Line 68: Rephrase. Fire curtains are not divided compartments!

Line 214: Find synonym or reformulate "In a study [39], experimental studies"

Line 316: Correct: "As it can be seen " instead of "as can be seen"

Conclusions: Line 459: It is not correct "integrity loss of E60" or " a loss of insulating capacity of I15". The 60 minutes is the period while the integrity is maintained. The loss is afterwards. Reformulate. 

The English fluency is not the best and there are several missing articles ("the").

The overall sense in a sentence is lost sometimes due to a poor translation. I have made comments to the authors for each line where English revision is required.

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