ON CURRENT PROBLEMS OF GEOMECHANICS

Abstract

The issues related to the description of the structure and dynamics of deformation of a blocky natural environment are considered. It is shown that the formation of the rock mass structure and its changes are determined by the deformation regime. The allocation of active structural blocks in rock arrays cannot be based solely on determining their geometric dimensions. The defining feature of active natural isolation is the presence of a dynamically balanced dissipative structure in a certain volume of the array, which corresponds to a stationary deformation regime. The main directions of research in the field of geomechanics are formulated.