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The authors investigate influence of the microstructural disorder and different outside stimuli on the damage evolution modes in materials with low cohesive strength. The main attention is placed on the understanding of fundamental mechanisms of damage evolution and failure in these materials. The authors consider the class of critical states with the correlation length \(l\) which is proportional to the size of the largest defect cluster and can be thought of as a characteristic length of the microstructural disorder. Basic conclusions are that failure mode depends on the applied load and microstructural disorder; the evolution of microstructural disorder is a nonlinear, nonlocal, and nondeterministic process; material instability does not necessarily imply the failure of the specimen, and the response in the post (material) failure regime depends on the extremes of stress and strain fields. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0884.00049].