Concerning the Kinetic Approach to the Simulation of Destruction Processes in Materials

A significant number of different types of damage to structural materials, as well as various scenarios of their accumulation, up to destruction, require not only the use of a significant set of experimental methods and the methods of theoretical materials science and molecular physics, but also for developing appropriate mathematical models. These models perform two functions. On the one hand, they make it possible to give a reasonable interpretation of complicated processes, and, on the other hand, they can forecast the evolution of the material under specific operating conditions. Some features characterizing the description of material degradation and destruction based on kinetic approaches are considered.