“…Furthermore, because of the complex structure, theoretical analysis can hardly give enough predictive results for the NHSK reinforced composites, either. For instance, Chen and Lu [16] analyzed the load transfer mechanism of composites incorporating the NHSK structures by an improved shear-lag model, but could not give the effective properties of the whole composites. However, computational approaches, especially FEA method, can provide more reasonable descriptions of the complex microstructures of the composites and give relative accurate predictions for their properties.…”