Peer review report 3 on “Characterization of debonding strength in steel-wire-reinforced aluminum and its influence on material fracture”

Engineering Fracture Mechanics 133 Supplement 1 (2015) 85

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Peer Review Report

Peer review report 3 on ‘‘Characterization of debonding strength in steel-wire-reinforced aluminum and its influence on material fracture’’ Original Submission Recommendation Publish Comments to the author This manuscript reports on the fracture behavior and fracture mechanism of a steel wire-reinforced aluminum with a small wire volume fraction. This paper combines experimental tensile and shear test data with corresponding prediction by FEM simulations. Both the experimental precess and computational modeling are based on solid technique and proper tools. Interpretation and conclusions are sound and highly reasonable. The methodology as well as the results will have a wide validity for the related community. This paper shows an exemplary quality of merit expected for EFM. So I recommend publication in EFM as it is. I enjoyed my duty as reviewer in reading this manuscript. Jeong-Ha You Research Scientist Max-Planck-Institute of Plasma Physics E2M Boltzmannstr. 2 Garching, 85748 Germany

DOI of published article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.engfracmech.2015.05.029

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.engfracmech.2015.05.032