4. Conclusions
A theoretical model is developed to establish the relationship between the applied stress and relative displacement during the loading-unloading process based on the debonding criterion of energy release rate and the modified analysis of stress (Qing, 2013). The influence of radial residual thermal stress, fiber pullout rate, fiber volume contents and model length on loading and unloading processes is investigated through the theoretical model. The study results show that both normal deformation along the radial and circumferential directions as well as shear deformation should be taken into account to calculate the elastic strain energy for single fiber pullout model. The model length almost has no influence on the debonding and unloading processes at the initial debonding region under different conditions of radial residual thermal stress, fiber pullout rate and fiber volume contents. There is a drop for applied stress when the debonding close to model end, and the drop decreases with the increase of the model length. When the unloading stops(u ¼ l), the unloading stress increases with the increase of radial residual thermal stress, fiber pullout rate and fiber volume content.