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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0755.00007.] The authors have presented a new approach for direct stress intensity factor determination -- which also produces higher order or non-singular factors -- using and extending the classical method of lines empowered with recent developments in the state-of-the-art of ordinary differential equation solvers. In this method, the inverse square root singularity, by introducing a singularity subtraction technique and pseudo-ordinary differential equations, is identified as the stress intensity factor and higher order factors along with supplementary boundary conditions which produce via an ordinary differential equation solver very accurate results in an easy and direct manner. The method has been illustrated by considering a well-known model.