Wiktionary
a. (context engineering architecture English) Of a structural member, having stress already applied during the manufacturing process in the opposite direction to the stress expected in use.
Usage examples of "pre-stressed".
A quarter million tons of formed, pre-stressed concrete reinforced with every artifice available to modern science.
As these molds were completed and pre-stressed concrete members were cast into them, the first use of these pieces was to put up the walls, pillars, and ceilings of the building itself!
Noisy crews raised the first new wall, bracing the unfamiliar pre-stressed plastic against the wind.
If pre-stressed concrete and high-rise apartments were anathemas to Cornelius Carrington, to be condemned on social, moral and aesthetic grounds, his adulation of pebbledash, pseudo-Tudor and crazy paving asserted the supreme virtues of the suburbs and reassured his viewers that all was well with the world in spite of the fact that nearly everything was wrong.
They hit the next building in line, bow-on at seventy kph—shattering panels of pre-stressed concrete and sweeping the fan duct clear in the avalanche of heavy debris.