“…This type of model is also employed in conjunction with the fiber pushout and pullout tests to evaluate the frictional characteristics and the strength/toughness of the interface. Mechanics analyses vary in complexity from shear lag (Greszczuk, 1969;Kerans et al 1989, Kerans andParthasarathy, 1991) to theory of elasticity solutions (Liang and Hutchinson, 1993), and from variational stress solutions (Pagano, 1991;Tandon and Pagano, 1996) to displacement-based finite element methods (Pochiraju et al, 1994(Pochiraju et al, , 1995. The inability of several of these methods to model the multivalued stress field at cracks and corners leads, at best, to approximate stress fields in these locations.…”