“…Stress concentration, chemical reaction, and early-stage irradiation are common producers of interfacial damage at micro-and meso-scales [40,28]. Thermal cycling, fatigue, and shock-wave loading, however, are mostly responsible for distributed fracture zones [27]. Thus, active processes in this work are identified, according to Figure 1 (b), with connected or unconnected sets of heterogeneous fractures Γ κ of interfacial elasticity K κ (ξ).…”