post-tension
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Verb
post-tension (third-person singular simple present post-tensions, present participle post-tensioning, simple past and past participle post-tensioned)
- (construction, engineering) To apply tension (to reinforcing tendons) after casting concrete.
- 1977, Post-Tensioning Institute, Design of Post-tensioned Slabs, page 37:
- This minimum amount and location of post-tensioning force should be noted on the structural drawings.
- 2007, American Institute of Architects, edited by Andy Pressman, Architectural Graphic Standards, page 37:
- Slab post-tensioned and/or reinforced with active pre-stress: These slabs are designed following the Post-Tension Institute's procedures using active prestress, which permits thinner slabs. They are reinforced with post-tensioning tendons and mild steel reinforcement
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