Glulam Roof Design

Detailed design services include early design advice and consulting conceptual sketches 2d general arrangements 3d structural detailing and full 3d timber frame structural design.

Glulam roof design.

Our glued laminated timber offers excellent statics qualities. Final design should include a complete analysis including bearing stresses and lateral stability. Aitc capacity tables provide the uniformly distributed load that a glued laminated timber beam can support based on beam size span and material properties. It is light weight and retains its shape.

In reticulated glulam framed dome structures glulam arches span more than 500 feet. These tables are provided as a guideline. Allowable loads for cantilevered glulam roof beams tables 5 6 11 and 12 are for preliminary design of cantilevered roof beams. Table specifications are provided with each table indicating conditions and assumptions used to calculate the loads.

Glued laminated timber or glulam is the beating heart of timber engineering. Glulam roof beams. In commercial design custom glulam beams can span more than 100 feet. Several layers of spruce wood are glued together in the direction of the grain and processed into customised glulam elements.

The beam span length is fixed for this demo version. The material is made up of several layers of structural timber that have been bonded together using adhesives in order to form a bigger potentially enormous piece of wood. The full version allows you to design beams of any size. Design values structural glued laminated timber shall provide design values for normal load duration and dry use condition 1 2 the design should specify a layup combination from ansi 117 or apa data file.

Download the glued laminated beam design tables form s475 provide recommended preliminary design loads for two of the most common glulam. See design examples 2 and 3 pages 24 25 for examples of preliminary design using glulam beam load span tables. If the proposed design of your roof is not achievable using a conventional truss design then sydenhams can incorporate glulam laminated beams to provide support intermediately or as a design statement the beams can be left exposed to provide maximum impact. By using the latest 3d modelling cad packages glulam members can be modelled accurately using clash analysis of members and connections.

The glulam product guide form x440 describes apa trademarked glulam addresses important design considerations and includes a specification guide it also highlights some of the many applications where glulam is used in construction. Glulam design specifications form y117.