Response to the comment on the paper “Transient response in a thermoelastic half-space solid due to a laser pulse under three theories with memory-dependent derivative, S. Mondal, P. Pal, M. Kanoria, Acta Mech 230, 179–199 (2019)” by A. Pantokratoras.

The authors would like to thank the reviewer for his critical analysis for the above-mentioned paper. Our comments are as follows:

  1. 1.

    The dimension of Q is \(\frac{\mathrm{m}^2}{\mathrm{s}^3}\) and the dimension of \(\dot{Q}\), i.e., \(\frac{\partial Q}{\partial t}\), is \(\frac{\mathrm{m}^2}{\mathrm{s}^4}\).

  2. 2.

    The term \(\epsilon _{2}\) should be corrected as \(\frac{\rho \gamma \kappa ^{3}R_{a}L_{0}\exp \left( -\frac{h}{2\delta } \right) }{Kc_{0}^{2}\left( \lambda +2\mu \right) \delta t_{p}^{2}}\).