Development of geomechanics of highly compressed rocks and rock masses in Russia

Abstract

A brief overview of the basic principles of geomechanics of highly compressed rocks and masses is presented. The historical path of formation of this new scientific branch of the classical geomechanics is shown. The scales and structural levels of the geomedium failure are identified. The issues of adequate mathematical models at various geomedium structural levels developing, as well as methods for determining the parameters of these models are considered. The object, subject, methods and principles of geomechanics of highly compressed rocks and masses are formulated as a complex discipline at the intersection of classical geomechanics and mesomechanics.

Keywords

Geomedium / Scale levels / Structural levels / Continuum model / Models parameters / Rock sample / Rock mass / Mesomechanics / Principles

CRediT authorship contribution statement

V.V. Makarov: Writing - review & editing, Writing - original draft, Visualization, Funding acquisition, Formal analysis, Conceptualization. M.A. Guzev: Writing - original draft, Validation, Formal analysis, Data curation, Conceptualization. V.N. Odintsev: Writing - original draft, Investigation, Formal analysis, Data curation, Conceptualization.

Declaration of competing interest

All the authors declare that they have no known competing interests in this paper.

Acknowledgements

The authors grateful to Golosov Andrei for collecting and processing data of laboratory experiments with rock samples. This document is the results of the research project funded by Foundation of Far Eastern Federal University (No. D-231-22 dated July 05, 2022).

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