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Fig. 7. A comparison in terms of crack path (a) and SIFs (b) between the proposed method and the results reported in Prasad et al. (Prasad, Aliabadi and Rooke (1994)) (BEM) and Chen et al. (Chen, Wang, Liu, Wang and Sun (2016)) (ES-FEM).

Fig. 8. Snapshots of the mesh frame (a) and temperature field (b) during the propagation process