  The Comment by Aifantis that criticizes the article 'On non-singular crack
fields in Helmholtz type enriched elasticity theories' [Lazar, M., Polyzos, D.,
2014. Int. J. Solids Struct. doi: 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2014.01.002] is refuted by
means of clear and straightforward arguments. Important theoretical aspects of
gradient enriched elasticity theories which emerge in this work are also
discussed.
