Offers a framework for technology-enabled services, their globalization and factors shaping their sourcing and supply. This book examines what is happening to the global services market place, developments and how they will affect us all.

Product Description: The book introduces the reader to the fundamentals of rock mechanics and to its application to economic construction in rock. Models describe the mechanical properties and the permeability of rock. Numerical methods for evaluating the stability of structures in rock are given to solve special problems related to tunnels, caverns, pressure tunnels, dam foundations and slopes...read more