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1Prestressed concrete — diagram Prestressed concrete is a method for overcoming concrete s natural weakness in tension. It can be used to produce beams, floors or bridges with a longer span than is practical with ordinary reinforced concrete. Prestressing tendons… …
2prestressed concrete — ☆ prestressed concrete [prē′strest′ ] n. concrete in which steel cables, wires, etc. are embedded under tension so as to produce compressive stress and lend greater strength …
3steel — steellike, adj. /steel/, n. 1. any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying …
4prestressed concrete — concrete reinforced with wire strands, pretensioned or post tensioned within their elastic limit to give an active resistance to loads. [1935 40] * * * Concrete reinforced by either pretensioning or posttensioning, allowing it to carry a greater… …
5prestressed concrete — noun concrete with stresses induced in it before use so as to counteract stresses that will be produced by load; often contains stretched steel bars or wires called tendons …
6prestressed — pre·stressed || ‚prÉªË strest adj. reinforced by steel rods, strengthened with wires (about cement) …
7Deep foundation — A deep foundation installation for a bridge in Napa, California, United States …
8Geodesic dome — Spaceship Earth at Epcot, Walt Disney World, a geodesic sphere A geodesic dome is a spherical or partial spherical shell structure or lattice shell based on a network of great circles (geodesics) on the surface of a sphere. The geodesics… …
9Arch dam — An arch dam is a thin, curved concrete or masonry dam structure which is built to curve upstream so that the force of the water against it squeezes the arch, compressing and strengthening the structure and pushing it into the ground. An arch dam… …
10Adolphe Bridge — Infobox Bridge bridge name = Adolphe Bridge caption = official name = Pont Adolphe carries = Road traffic and pedestrians crosses = Pétrusse river locale = Luxembourg City maint = Administration des ponts et chaussées id = design = Open spandrel… …
