In addition to making curved beams american laminators can also manufacture beams with one side curved and the other side straight.
Curved laminated beams.
Common applications for curved laminated products are.
Larger cross sections can be made via special wood manufacturing processes.
We can manufacture most custom curved shapes including s curves side curves parabolic arches double compound curves and tight radius curves with a radius as tight as 2 0.
Curved headers for porches and towers.
The glue lines are usually exaggerated on the cut side.
Curved and arched glulams calvert co inc.
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.
The flexibility of glulam beams allows for the designer s creative imagination to be realised.
Glulam beams that curve in plan use plies that are oriented vertically therefore the finished height of the beam is based on standard glulam widths.
Radial curved elliptical shapes and reverse curves are all possible.
Can manufacture a variety of different types of curved glulams including the standard constant radius curve tudor arches and peak and cambered glulams.
Contact us via glulam sales department.
Use other member stress combinations e g.
Encasements headers for large openings.
The tightness of the radius will determine the thickness of the laminations.