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In the present study, a new technique in Discrete Least Squares Meshless method; DLSM; has been adopted for stress assessment of two-dimensional elastic domains including a non-growing crack. DLSM is a real meshless method that does not require mesh both in approximation step and in numerical integration step of the solution procedure due to the use of a collection of the un-structured nodal points...