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Abnormally high central difference approximation of displacement of a node relative to those of its neighborhood points indicates a crack at that point. A suite of simulation experiments and numerical calculations was conducted to find out whether the proposed identification method could accurately identify the location of a crack in a cantilever beam under moving load compared to the location found by an exact solution method, and the outcomes indicated that it was as able as the analytical method. The proposed method is an FEA analysis, an approach familiar to virtually every engineer. Therefore, the relative amount of time and effort spent on developing the proposed method for a specific application is much less than those spent on developing an analytical method. 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