Abstract: To analyze the toughening mechanism of continuous fiber-reinforced resin composite laminates with interlaminar short fibers, the fact that the short fibers are distributed disorderly on interlayers and almost parallel to interlaminar cracks should be taken into consideration. Based on the coupling of matrix spalling and short fibers, the pull-out with the disturbance to unbridged short fibers during spalling considered, a bridging model is developed for interlaminar short fibers in mode II delamination to analyze the pull-out process of bridged fibers at different angles, the relationship between bridging force and crack-open displacement is obtained. The numerical results indicate that the displacement is very small except the angle is close to 90° and the bridging force increases rapidly before pull-out but decreases with greatly increasing displacement, i.e. the energy dissipation occurs mainly due to fibers' pull-out, and the bridging force and energy dissipation decrease with increasing pull-out angle.