A sensitivity study on the mechanical properties of interface elements adopted in finite element analyses to simulate the interaction between soil and laterally loaded piles

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The authors would like to thank the reviewers for their positive feedback and also for their comments, that allowed to improve the quality of the paper, especially with reference to the figures included in it. A revised version of the article has been resubmitted, now including the modifications listed below as part of the responses to the reviewers.

Regarding the comments received from Reviewer 1:
1) We have now reported in the text the interface properties used by Pedone et al. (2023) in their analysis, to give appropriate background for the additional results by Pedone et al. (2023) reported in Figures 2, 4 and 5. Regarding the field data shown in these figures, we thought it was useful for the reader to have a reference for the predicted pile capacities, which is why it was decided to leave them in the paper. 
2) The legends of Figures 2 to 4 have been changed in order to adopt a unique scientific notation throughout the whole paper, as suggested.
3) Unfortunately, some technical issues were encountered while post-processing new results from the analyses, so it was not possible to include new countour plots in Figure 3. However, in order to improve the information reported in the figure, clearer legends were included (also to address the comment received from Reviewer 2). 
4) All the symbols are reported in italic in the revised version of the paper.

Regarding the comment received from Reviewer 2:
As suggested, we have now increased the font size of the contour levels in Figure 3.

10th European Conference on Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering (NUMGE2023)

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