“…Emanating from the eigenstrain concept (Eshelby, 1957) and the micromechanical framework (Ju and Chen, 1994a, b, c;Tseng, 1996, 1997;Zhang, 1998, 2001;Ju and Sun, 2001;Sun and Ju, 2001;Lin and Ju, 2009;Feng and Yu, 2010;Yanase, 2010, 2011), the effective elastoplasticdamage behavior of fiber/particle-reinforced composites due to interfacial complete/partial debonding Lee, 2000, 2001;Liu et al, , 2006Ju et al 2006Paulino et al, 2006;Ju, 2007, 2008;Ju and Yanase, 2009;Okabe et al, 2010), particlecracking , and thermal residual effect Ju and Yanase, 2008;Zhang and Wang, 2010) have been investigated extensively in the literature. In addition, a number of studies regarding the effects of particle-cracking in particle-reinforced MMCs have been conducted under the unit-cell micromechanical framework and the finite element analysis.…”