Discussion of “Limit analysis of slopes with cracks: Comparisons of results”

The discusser is the author of one of the two papers (Utili, 2013) compared by the authors of “Limit analysis of slopes with cracks: Comparisons of results”. The discusser wishes to highlight here that in his opinion there are a few misconceptions in the note and wishes to ask the authors to please clarify some ambiguities for the benefit of the readers.