Shear-lag model for discontinuous fiber-reinforced composites with a membrane-type imperfect interface

A shear-lag model is developed for discontinuous fiber-reinforced composites with a membrane-type imperfect interface, across which the displacement vector is continuous but the traction vector suffers a jump that is governed by the generalized Young–Laplace equation. Closed-form expressions are obtained for the stress fields in both the fiber-reinforced region and the pure matrix regions and for the shear stress on the interface from both the...