К лю чевы е слова: комплексное микромеханическое моделирование, доля объемных пустот, метод конечных элементов, критерий развития трещины.Introduction. Micromechanism of ductile fracture o f most metals and alloys includes void nucleation, growth and coalescence. In steels, voids nucleate at non-metallic inclusions and second-phase particles. Micromechanical approach to fracture mechanics has been introduced in an effort to describe the process of fracture in a way that is as close to the actual phenomena in a material as possible. Such an approach is based on the models that account for and quantify the process o f microscopic damages, in order to predict macroscopic failure.Micromechanical approach to the analysis o f ductile fracture requires combined experimental and numerical procedure. According to the uncoupled micromechanical damage models, the damage parameter is calculated in postprocessing phase of the finite element (FE) analysis. In the coupled micromechanical models, one or more damage parameters are calculated to