A Simply Supported Laminated Wood Beam

Versa lam laminated veneer lumber lvl beams and headers eliminate twisting shrinking and splitting and deliver flatter quieter floors and structures.

A simply supported laminated wood beam.

Your company is comparing a simply supported laminated 16 deep wood i beam supplied by georgia pacific and an 8 steel i beam. The beam carries a 9 kip concentrated load at midspan. Planks glued together to form a section 6 in. Planks glued together to form a section 6 in.

Wide by 16 in. 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. Glue laminated glulam beams. The equivalent glulam member shown can support the same or greater applied loads than the beam being replaced.

Rosboro x beam glulam superior ered wood s rosboro x beam glulam superior ered wood s wood beam calculator 8 vine calculators 1937 1970 s inland steel co girders how. Pressure treated glulam beam 3 actual thickness when making a selection below to narrow your results down each selection made will reload the page to display the desired results. For this reason horizontal holes in glued laminated timbers are limited in size and location to maintain the structural integrity of the beam. Uniformly loaded simply supported beam.

These non critical zones are located in portions of the beam stressed to less. Figure 3 shows the zones of a uniformly loaded simply supported beam where the field drilling of holes may be considered. An t s to glulam features glulam beams laminated wood beams span tablesglulam beamscan ered lumber be in deck framing professional builderwood beam design and installation considerations weyerhaeuserglulam beamswood beams laminated span. Central point load neglecting all other loads to the beam and a maximum allowable deflection of 0 55 what is the maximum distance between supports for each beam type.

A laminated wood beam consists of eight 2 in. Our versa lam lvl is manufactured in either alexandria lena louisiana in eastern united states or in white city oregon for the western united states. Assuming the same 2400 lb. Wide by 12 in.

Engineered wood products ewp lvl span and size charts. The tables assume that the original solid sawn or steel beams were designed correctly and are not intended.