post-tension

present singular third person post-tensions · participle present post-tensioning · participle past post-tensioned · past post-tensioned

1. businessTo apply tension (to reinforcing tendons) after casting concrete.

   This minimum amount and location of post-tensioning force should be noted on the structural drawings.

   1977, Post-Tensioning Institute, Design of Post-tensioned Slabs, page 37

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   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

   2007, American Institute of Architects, edited by Andy Pressman, Architectural Graphic Standards, page 37