Like a troll in a German fairy tale, he lives under a bridge, demanding tribute from those who pass.
It was found that the ultimate capacity of the bridge girders were much higher than the bridge demand and the bridge had good ductility until failure.
Silicon Valley is riddled with these suits, and it was there that the term was coined; there are trolls under every bridge, demanding their unearned share of the tech boom profits.
This study also discusses the parameter combinations that the different approaches lead to underestimate or overestimate the bridges demands.
Does this remind you of ugly creatures jumping out from under bridges, demanding tolls from those in the midst of crossing, and, in some cases, eating them alive?
Engineering geological survey techniques were applied, and together with field exploration methods, such as geophysical prospecting and drilling exploration, the geological conditions of the site with respect to bridge engineering demands were comprehensively evaluated.
The necessity of improving the assessment of the expected economic losses by the earthquake actions has motivated the evolution of several proposals, aimed at evaluating the bridge seismic demands under different seismic scenarios.
If you spend X at time t to build a bridge, aggregate demand increases by X at time t.
The stubbornness of the labels has earned them a particular caricature in Silicon Valley: the bridge troll, demanding payment for passage.
(The blood is simmering!) The police radio tells the officers that the man claims to be an anti-Castro dissident, and that the Cubans on the bridge are demanding asylum for this almost-immigrant.
