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Fracture and damage are major issues of modern research in solid mechanics. Theoretical and experimental investigations deal with damage evolution, crack initiation and growth under various loading conditions. This problem area is interesting both from the theoretical view of an academic solid mechanics researcher and the engineering application improving strength, reliability and lifetime of technical structures or fostering lightweight design. Nowadays, coupled phenomena are of increasing interest, relating classical continuum mechanics to chemical, electrical, thermal or other issues. The talk gives an overview on different research activities in this wide and interesting field, contemporarily being in progress within the presenters group. Classical structural materials are within the focus as well as functional, e.g. refractory materials, and modern smart materials such as ferroelectrics or multiferroics. One special focus is thus on coupled problems and their impact on fracture and damage. Analytical investigations leading to closed-form results are presented besides numerical simulations of crack initiation and growth.