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The first attempts to apply the principle of prestressing were probably made about 1886, but the concept of this type of structure did not reach a high quantitative level until almost sixty years later. Steel construction and simple reinforced concrete have gradually given way to prestressed concrete for three reasons.
The first attempts to apply the principle of prestressing were probably made about 1886, but the concept of this type of structure did not reach a high quantitative level until almost sixty years later. Steel construction and simple reinforced concrete have gradually given way to prestressed concrete for three reasons.
| Author(s) | Ian M. Park, Stelwire, Canada (presented in memoriam of A.B. Dove) |
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| Publication/Event/Pages | Paper presented at 59th Annual Convention, Atlanta, GA USA. Paper published in the Wire Journal International, May, 1990, pg. 19. |
| Year | 1989 |
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