Post tension Archives

Long ago, when I started my career, a contractor asked me if he could use a concrete saw to “cut

In the last several months, I’ve had many questions about what constitutes a “restrained” concrete member, and what constitutes an

My Post–Tension elevator speech is pretty well rehearsed at this point: “We drape steel cables — tendons — in the

As a structural designer, I started my career working on post-tension structures. Those of you who have been with us

A Post Tension (PT) slab-on-grade (SOG) foundation is based on a typical raft SOG foundation with one major difference; high

Last month, I wrote a blog post about things you can’t fix with duct tape — specifically, post-tension tendon sheathing.

Courts for basketball, tennis and other sports need to be free of cracking. At the same time, they are large

Good day! Your usual post–tension maniac here, with more exciting information on post-tensioning! A few months ago, I mentioned that

Recently, we’ve had a few projects where our post-tension elongations came up longer than expected. As you’ll recall from my

EVstudio provided post tension foundation design for the recent St Francis of Assisi Church. The Church is being built by

Last month, I wrote a quick post about understanding the sources of long-term losses with post-tension tendons. One of the

Last month, I discussed the need for precompression in a post-tensioned slab. In that post, I mentioned that the code

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