what is a pretension and post tension with an example



what is a pretension and post tension with an example..

Answer / santosh

in pretensioning the tendons(steel rod) are streched so that
stress in induced in tendons before concreting eg.railway
sleepers or beams

in post tension stresses are induced after the concreting is
done

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