A Review of the Pull-Out Mechanism in the Fracture of Brittle-Matrix Fibre-Reinforced Composites

The current work addresses the role of damage mechanisms such as interfacial debonding, crack deflection, bridging and sliding during fracture of a brittle-matrix fibre-reinforced composite with respect to their energy dissipation capacity and their impact on the pull-out mechanism. The aim of the paper is to explain why fibre failure is preferably concentrated within the matrix environment to give rise to the pull-out mechanism and not within...