Curved and arched glulams calvert co inc.
Arched glue laminated beams.
Table specifications are provided with each table indicating conditions and assumptions used to calculate the loads.
These tables are provided as a guideline.
This is done by either cutting a curve into one side of a straight beam or by making a straight cut on one side of a curved beam.
Unalam glulam products are manufactured in a variety of shapes and sizes to suit your building needs.
The tightness of the radius will determine the thickness of the laminations.
In addition to making curved beams american laminators can also manufacture beams with one side curved and the other side straight.
Curved beams and custom fabrication is available.
Glulam beams with constant cross section and radius for barrel or dome roof profiles.
Our structural glulam units are available in columns trusses arches purlins and beams floor and roof.
Can manufacture a variety of different types of curved glulams including the standard constant radius curve tudor arches and peak and cambered glulams.
Products work well in single or multi family residential as well as light commercial projects.
The glue lines are usually exaggerated on the cut side.
Rigidply rafters inc has been manufacturing glue laminated products since 1954.
We can manufacture most custom curved shapes including s curves side curves parabolic arches double compound curves and tight radius curves with.
Use beam stress combinations e g.
Aitc beam capacity tables.
As one of the oldest continuous glulam manufactures in the u s calvert company was founded in 1947 and brings more than 60 years of experience producing high quality glued laminated beams.
Our laminated wood is readily available and generally requires less lead time than other structural framing systems.
The flexibility of glulam beams allows for the designer s creative imagination to be realised.
Radial curved elliptical shapes and reverse curves are all possible.
Factory made members can be formed into any practical shape and any desired size.
Our titan timber beams resist checking and twisting and are job site ready with one piece construction and more cost efficient than lvl and psl.
Outside edge of glulam follows the straight wall arch leg up to the eave arch knee then follows the straight roof slope arch.
Two manufacturing plants in the pacific northwest washougal and vancouver washington produce glulams for both commercial and residential projects.
Laminated beams are superior in all strength characteristics to solid sawn lumber.
Boise glulam is a strong cost effective wood beam solution which can be used as beams or columns in a multitude of building design applications.
Glue laminated glulam beams timber technologies glue laminated beams are superior in all strength characteristics to solid sawn lumber and pound for pound stronger than steel.
They resist checking and twisting because of the use of multiple plies of kiln dried lumber bonded together with waterproof phenol resorcinol adhesive.