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1. RC1: The authors go further, however, weakening/endangering the manuscript. They analyze their data in terms of a constitutive model that was developed by Schapery (1969, 1997) for uniaxial loading (noted in lines 171-173). But in the experiments at hand, deformation occurred under a multiaxial stress state. Given that the model and the data relate to different states of stress and given that values of the