Curved beams and custom fabrication is available.
Arched glue laminated beams.
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.
These tables are provided as a guideline.
Glulam beams with constant cross section and radius for barrel or dome roof profiles.
Rigidply rafters inc has been manufacturing glue laminated products since 1954.
Radial curved elliptical shapes and reverse curves are all possible.
The tightness of the radius will determine the thickness of the laminations.
Apa certified for quality assurance.
Curved and arched glulams calvert co inc.
Can manufacture a variety of different types of curved glulams including the standard constant radius curve tudor arches and peak and cambered glulams.
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.
Products work well in single or multi family residential as well as light commercial projects.
A traditional 3 hinge arch design commonly used in glulam structures.
They resist checking and twisting because of the use of multiple plies of kiln dried lumber bonded together with waterproof phenol resorcinol adhesive.
Our structural glulam units are available in columns trusses arches purlins and beams floor and roof.
Aitc capacity tables provide the uniformly distributed load that a glued laminated timber beam can support based on beam size span and material properties.
Outside edge of glulam follows the straight wall arch leg up to the eave arch knee then follows the straight roof slope arch.
The glue lines are usually exaggerated on the cut side.
Laminated beams are superior in all strength characteristics to solid sawn lumber.
Factory made members can be formed into any practical shape and any desired size.
In addition to making curved beams american laminators can also manufacture beams with one side curved and the other side straight.
Aitc beam capacity tables.
The flexibility of glulam beams allows for the designer s creative imagination to be realised.
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.
Our laminated wood is readily available and generally requires less lead time than other structural framing systems.
Use beam stress combinations e g.
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.
We can manufacture most custom curved shapes including s curves side curves parabolic arches double compound curves and tight radius curves with.
