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A bridged-crack model is proposed in order to explain and reproduce the constitutive flexural response of brittle matrix fibrous composites. This response is often discontinuous owing to the presence of virtual catastrophic branches; i.e. snap-through with load-control and snap-back with deflection-control.The bridging tractions are assumed as constant plastic forces, whereas the cracks run in an...