December 2000 OVERVIEW Post-tensioning is a method of reinforcing (strengthening) concrete or other materials with high-strength steel strands or bars, typically referred to as tendons. Post-tensioning applications include office and apartment buildings, parking structures, slabs-on-ground, bridges, sports stadiums, rock and soil anchors, and water-tanks. In many cases, posttensioning allows co...

He started elementary school in the Fall of 1940 and enjoyed a few months of school, when, suddenly, one morning in the Spring of 1941 a barrage of bombs engulfed the apartment house where his family resided; the Second World War arrived in Serbia, and especially Belgrade, with fury and destruction. For the next four years, his life and the life of his family would hang in the balance. Hunger, ...