Arched Glue Laminated Beams

Can manufacture a variety of different types of curved glulams including the standard constant radius curve tudor arches and peak and cambered glulams.

Arched glue laminated beams.

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. The tightness of the radius will determine the thickness of the laminations. 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. Glulam beams with constant cross section and radius for barrel or dome roof profiles.

Curved beams and custom fabrication is available. Our laminated wood is readily available and generally requires less lead time than other structural framing systems. Curved and arched glulams calvert co inc. 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.

We can manufacture most custom curved shapes including s curves side curves parabolic arches double compound curves and tight radius curves with. Laminated beams are superior in all strength characteristics to solid sawn lumber. Unalam glulam products are manufactured in a variety of shapes and sizes to suit your building needs. Two manufacturing plants in the pacific northwest washougal and vancouver washington produce glulams for both commercial and residential projects.

Radial curved elliptical shapes and reverse curves are all possible. A traditional 3 hinge arch design commonly used in glulam structures. 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. Aitc capacity tables provide the uniformly distributed load that a glued laminated timber beam can support based on beam size span and material properties.

These tables are provided as a guideline. They resist checking and twisting because of the use of multiple plies of kiln dried lumber bonded together with waterproof phenol resorcinol adhesive. Rigidply rafters inc has been manufacturing glue laminated products since 1954. Use beam stress combinations e g.

The flexibility of glulam beams allows for the designer s creative imagination to be realised. 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. Apa certified for quality assurance.

The glue lines are usually exaggerated on the cut side. Outside edge of glulam follows the straight wall arch leg up to the eave arch knee then follows the straight roof slope arch. Factory made members can be formed into any practical shape and any desired size. Our structural glulam units are available in columns trusses arches purlins and beams floor and roof.