Reply to the discussion by MaCarron on "Large-scale modelling of soil-pipe interaction during large amplitude cyclic movements of partially embedded pipelines"

Abstract

The authors are grateful for the discusser's interest in our work. The discussion raises a number of important points that we are able to clarify and expand on and highlights certain areas of pipe–soil interaction that we agree remain challenging sources of uncertainty. Some of the points raised in the discussion have been the focus of the authors' more recent work. These recent findings have been published elsewhere, and references are given in this reply.