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What does prestressed mean?

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Adjective
  1. Having been stressed before use
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Construction is reinforced concrete with prestressed concrete floors.
It can be used to strengthen reinforced and prestressed beams, girders, and slabs to provide additional flexural strength.
Instead, concrete for each segment was poured into the form traveler where it was held in place until cured and, if necessary, prestressed.
The bulk of the structure from abutment to abutment is of reinforced and prestressed concrete.
The spring constants had a small amount of heterogeneity, and the entire network was prestressed.
The beams of prestressed concrete were found to be in relatively good condition, but more than 20 percent of the steel beams were corroded or damaged.

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