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vb. (context construction English) To apply stress to structural components in order to produce a tension that counteracts the loads to which the component is subjected in its designed use.
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Usage examples of "prestress".
We guided ones are the prestressed people, and we can never be unbalanced.
She felt an everlasting compassion for all the unguided and unscienced people of the world, all those who were not prestressed, all who were not people of the walls.
She sent a burst from the M-16 into the ceiling, blowing away the tiles to expose a sheet of prestressed concrete.
The main entrance is a vertical shaft under that prestressed concrete dome.
It can punch through half a metre of solid prestressed concrete without shattering until it hits something soft.
Reinforced concrete frames, Marya remembered, and prestressed panels for the walls, exterior cladding in a stone and brick checkerboard that matched the older part of the chateau without trying to imitate it.
Beyond them, in what looked, in the dark, like the whole southwest quadrant of the building, fifty or sixty adults and teenagers flailed to a sound so loud, so acoustically true, or both, that it made the prestressed concrete floor vibrate like the loft of a barn.
Those geodesic forms could not have been built without prestressed concrete or something more sophisticated, not to mention the engineering mathematics.
It was an imposing building of prestressed concrete, shaped like an enormous half-open oyster shell and painted in scarlet and white stripes.
Castang found his family installed on a fourteenth floor, in small boxes of hollow brick and prestressed concrete.
Smooth, spheroidal pressure vessels of steel and prestressed concrete loomed one hundred forty-five feet in diameter, and over two hundred feet long, cradled in massive welded frames and interconnected by a maze of heavy-walled pressure lines.
One hell of a smack to make the whole prestressed roof ring like a drum.
This end is a maze of fallen spaghetti, great curving loops of prestressed concrete that have lost their strength over the years and sagged to the ground.
Dead Sea, they found the sulphur extraction plant, a town-sized site encompassing hundreds of square miles of piping, chemical tanks, mineral silos, transport vehicles, all visible, and a nuclear reactor with a fissionable center under twenty feet of prestressed, reinforced concrete, buried invisibly deep beneath the desert sand.
The ring-shaped motorway, with its elevated and underground sections, encircled Paris like a grey moat of prestressed concrete.