“…Comprehensive analyses of imperfect interfaces are presented in two review articles (Wang et al, 2000;Peter, 1992). Specifically, the shear-lag model (Cheng et al, 1997;Handge, 2002), which is the simplest description (treating the interface bonding as a layer without thickness but with elasticity and interface elastic strain energy), has been widely applied to study imperfect interfaces both theoretically (Fan et al, 2006;Li and Lee, 2010;Melkumyan and Mai, 2008) and experimentally (Jin et al, 2005;Lavrentyev and Rokhlin, 1998). However, most studies have mainly focused on elastic imperfect interfaces, and only a few have been carried out to investigate the effect of imperfect viscoelastic interfaces, which are, in fact, more realistic.…”