“…The free-sliding model allows for relative slip in the tangential direction of the inclusion, but a displacement jump in the normal direction at the interface is not permitted. Physically, the free-sliding model may represent grain boundary sliding in polycrystals, the behavior of precipitates at high temperature, or imperfectly bonded interfaces in composite materials (Ghahremani, 1980;Jasiuk et al, 1987;Mura and Furuhashi, 1984). On the other hand, in the linear-spring model, the imperfection of interface is represented as the discontinuity of the displacement field across the interface (Aboudi, 1987;Duan et al, 2005Duan et al, , 2007aDuan et al, , 2007bGao, 1995;Hashin, 1991;Pyo, 2007, 2008;Qu, 1993aQu, , 1993bYanase and Ju, 2012;Zhong and Meguid, 1997).…”