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A comparative study of three domain-integral evaluation techniques in the boundary-domain integral equation method for transient thermoelastic crack analysis in FGMs

A.V. Ekhlakov^1,2, O.M. Khay^1,3, Ch. Zhang¹, X.W. Gao⁴, J. Sladek⁵, V. Sladek⁵

1 Department of Civil Engineering, University of Siegen, D-57068 Siegen, Germany.
2 Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering, University of Applied Sciences, Kurt-SchumacherRing 18, D-65197 Wiesbaden, Germany.
3 Pidstryhach Institute for Applied Problems of Mechanics and Mathematics NASU, 3b Naukova Str., 79060 Lviv, Ukraine.
4 Faculty of Vehicle Engineering and Mechanics, Dalian University of Technology, 116024 Dalian, PR China.
5 Institute of Construction and Architecture, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 84503 Bratislava, Slovakia.