A comprehensive study of deformation and destruction of compact bone tissue was carried out. Deformation of cylindrical samples was carried out in the mode of constant feed rate of the press plunger. During the experiments, deformation, changes in photon radiation on the surface of the samples and acoustic emission were recorded. It is shown that the initial accumulation of stresses on the relative axis of deformation for the occurrence of a crack on the lateral surface of the sample is the first link in the chain of formation of the micro-cut plane and an indicator of its orientation relative to the axis of the cylinder. The incipient plane of a macro-crack is a zone of increased local stresses, which stimulates the appearance of new microcracks in it. In this case, the exit of the microcrack to the lateral surface of the sample of compact bone tissue (human tibia) coincides in time with the registration of photoluminescence.

Analysis of the dependence of the break-down point of granite on the temperature of microwave heating allows identification of the following characteristic areas: hardening is observed at low temperature heating up to 390 K; a decrease in strength appears in the temperature range from 390 to 460 K, which is due to generation, growth, and coalescence of smaller cracks and their redistribution to the boundaries of grains with the formation of intergranular microcracks; there is a significant decrease in the strength at the temperature range from 460 to 550 K, which is caused by the separation of grains into blocks with a small area of crack density as a result of their coalescence, and the destruction and splitting of granite samples occurs at temperatures above 593 K due to the development of all kinds of microcracks. The developed method of determining the rational parameters of the microwave energy impact on the softening of hard rocks in the field of standing electromagnetic waves allows justification of the effective parameters of the impact of microwave energy on quartz-containing hard rocks for their softening and destruction based on the study of the dynamics of induced microcracks.