A methodology based upon shear-lag model was developed to derive stress profiles for any configuration of breaks in continuous fiber-reinforced metal matrix composites (MMCf), including the effect of local plasticity of matrix properties and interface characters between fiber and matrix. The importance of the matrix axial stiffness had been taken into account. An influence function superimposition technique was introduced to characterize nonlinear deformation coupling multiple damages events. It was shown that the theoretical values of the method presented in this paper were well fit with experimental results.
