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Schematic of the single-lap shear assembly exposing the FE mesh along with the boundary conditions used in the calculations. Both the meshed and unmeshed geometries were extracted from the FE model in ABAQUS (version 2022) and combined in Adobe Photoshop to obtain the final image46,52.
