This thesis aims to develop a model capable of describing the self-healing behaviour of ceramic matrix composites considered for use in hot parts of aircraft turbines and to investigate the effect of complex physical, chemical and mechanical interactions in terms of lifetime. The interest in these materials is due to their extremely long lifetime due to their ability to heal cracks by the action of a protective oxide. The first part of the thesis is devoted to the description of the numerical model built to characterize the behaviour and failure of a mini-composite under a tensile load proceeding from a two-dimensional image-based model of a transverse crack. A system of crack-averaged PDEs and ODEs is proposed for the transport of oxygen a...