MANUSCRIPT NUMBER SE010-ICACEST2018

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The introduction
1 Need to improve the section has been
sentence construction improved and
and some grammatical rewritten to improve
error the grammatical error.

Readable but need The terms such as DIC ,

2 some improvement on LVDT has been
the explanation for described in full in the
terms being used abstract section.

The Figure 8 is deleted

3 and not to be used in
Figure (8) is missing. this section. Table 3
And some figures will be used by the
doesn’t follow the reader as the reference
format. of the statement.

The technical
However, It could be preparation of the
interesting though if corrosion-damage
the author could rebar has been written
present some technical in the "Material and
preparation on the Methods" section in
corrosive-damage the last first paragraph
4 beam as it will as follows: "In order
enlighten further the to simulate the
reader on how the corrosion damage
damaged beams were characteristics effect
prepared. Especially on on the beam, the main
how the corrode bar reinforcement were
were prepared, does it made discontinuous by
prepared based on cutting some middle
standards procedure or portion of the rebar’s
how. Because the length by 230 mm
determination of length as shown in
degree of corrosive will Figure 2. This
directly reflected the discontinuous length
integrity of strengths will introduce artificial
performance of the bonding lost between
said beam. Hence, it the main rebar with
will influence on the the surrounding
author justification on concrete due to rebar
his hypothesis. corrosion. "
 A brief description on
how DIC method can
measure the deflection of
the beam with respect of
different corrosion
damage is explained in
the "Beam displacement
monitoring Using LVDT
and camera " section
using the following
sentences...."The code
script use the numerical
5 digital correlation
procedure to detect and
localized the movement
of the random pattern on
the beam as the beam
deformed under the
bending test. The
previous state of the
random pattern location
will be used as the main
The author can further reference to compute the
describe on how DIC difference of
method can measure displacement."
the corrosive-bar in the
beam clearly via matlab
scripts

The manuscript
sentences and
structure have been
reviewed and
improved. In the
introduction section,
6 the last paragraph has
been written back to
give the new idea of
Further improvement the paper. The very
on the format as the long sentences in the
manuscript has a small manuscript have been
technical errors, made shorter and
inconsistency in rewritten to two
referencing and also sentences. The
the construction of the referencing
sentences need to be inconsistency has been
polished improved.
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Abstract - Please state

1 the full form of DIC The short form of DIC
before the abbreviation has been described as
can be used for the rest Digital Image Correlation
of the paper. in the abstract

The last sentence has

been reviewed and
2 corrected. The word
Abstract - - Please "lost" has been changed
recheck the last to "low" to suit the last
sentence. sentence.

The manuscript is not

3 following the format The format of the
required for manusript has been
publication. reviewed and corrected

The structure of
sentence in the 3rd
paragraph has been
4 reviewed and totally
changed to a new idea.
Redundant words were No redundancy of
found in the 3rd sentences has been
paragraph of created again in this
introduction. paragraph.
Both tables have been
5 Table 3 and 4 need to repositioned in the
be repositioned edited manuscript.

The lowercase "lvdt" and

6 Paragraph after table 5: "dic" has been changed
lvdt and dic should be to the full upper case
capitalized. word.

The conclusions on this

idea has been reviewed
and written in the end of
7 the conclusion. "In
short, the DIC method
The author did not has almost similar
mention whether the performance with LVDT
method introduced in technique and very
this paper is suitable for low cost
implementable in the budget structural
conclusion. monitoring project"