Three methods to allow for damage of isotropic materials are discussed. The relations of the theory of deformation along paths of small curvature are used as equations of state. Rabotnov's scalar equation is used to study the damage of a material during thermoviscoelastoplastic deformation. The stress determined by a stress rupture criterion that accounts for the stress mode is taken as an equivalent stress. An algorithm based on the finite-element method is developed to solve three-dimensional problems of thermoviscoelastoplasticity with allowance for material damage. The numerical results obtained are compared with experimental data Keywords: thermoviscoelastoplasticity, damage, finite-element method, three-dimensional problem Introduction. The prediction of the total and residual service lifes of responsible members in modern structures operating for a long time under combined thermomechanical loading has recently come into current importance. This is because depending on thermal and mechanical conditions, plastic and creep strains may develop and stresses relax in such structures. Irreversible strains occurring under long-term loading may ultimately result in collapse of the whole structure.Phenomenological models allowing for the damage of a material under thermoviscoelastoplastic deformation and describing the kinetics of damage under quasistatic loading are addressed in [9,10,[13][14][15].These damage models were further developed in [1, 3, 4-6, 21, 23-27, 29-31]. The majority of these studies are based on various kinetic equations and damage parameters.According to Kachanov [9, 10] and Rabotnov [13][14][15], the key idea of phenomenological continuum models is to introduce so-called effective stresses dependent on some parameter describing the damage of the material. In the majority of the cited studies, effective stresses implicitly appear as a function of a damage parameter in the kinetic equation for the creep strain rate, which is reduced to modeling transient creep. Such models may be named the method of effective creep strains.A different approach was proposed in [21,24]. It directly allows for effective stresses by introducing effective moduli of elasticity depending on the damage of the material. This approach (we will call it the method of effective moduli) allows phenomenological description of the load-bearing capacity of the material as its damage builds up during deformation. Moreover, this method permits simple generalization to other types of damage such as high-cycle one.Generalizing the methods of effective creep strains and effective moduli, we can propose a mixed method describing both the variation in the mechanical characteristics of the material and transient creep. The present paper analyzes such methods against experimental data.1. Formulation of Three-Dimensional Thermoviscoplastic Problems for Damaged Materials. Consider, in curvilinear coordinates (q 1 , q 2 , q 3 ), a piecewise-inhomogeneous multilayer solid of volume V bounded by a surface S. At time zero, the solid is in natu...