Curved Glulam Beams Uk

We are the only certified glulam manufacturer in the uk.

Curved glulam beams uk.

Connections are usually made with bolts or plain steel dowels and steel plates. Lamisell uk suppliers of glulam beams and glulam glued laminated timber beams. Glulam beams are readily produced in curved shapes and are available in a range of species and appearance characteristics to meet varied end use requirements. It is a natural structural material that is economical strong and attractive looking.

Environmentally friendly and sustainable for a lower carbon lifestyle. Our main advantage is total flexibility from 1 to 10 000 pieces of non typical shape and dimension. The beams can be specifically cut to the clients required lengths and before despatch are wrapped and securely bundled ready for safe loading. Glulam is readily produced in curved shapes and it is available in a range of species and appearance characteristics to meet varied end use requirements.

Finger jointed connections complete glulam cross sections finger joint resorcinol gluing portal frames cranked beams 3. We hold stocks of straight beams ready for rapid despatch nationwide. Free shapes double curvatures 2axis curves free shapes are formed by gluing or custom joinery 2. Glulam curves ecocurves a member of jagram group is one of the largest and most renowned manufacturers of glulam timber arches in europe.

Since glulam is glued together using thin flexible lamellas it can easily be manufactured in curved shapes which is normally expensive in other types of structural materials. Glulam beams optimise the structural values of a renewable resource wood. Sloped beam with straight bottom chord transverse stress reinforcement with threaded rods beam lay up. Differing radii are achieved by adjusting the clamp layout and using different thicknesses of timber.

Competitive prices and lead times. Glulam is made by gluing together under pressure and heat laminates of timber that have been accurately planed. As seen on grand designs and at the rhs chelsea flower show. These structural members are used as vertical columns or horizontal beams as well as curved arched shapes.

The thinner the planks are the easier they are to bend which allows tighter radii to be achieved. Optimal roof pitch is 2 12 to 3 12 though other roof pitches are possible. Connections are usually made with bolts or plain steel dowels and steel plates. Glulam curved beams curved beams are made by clamping glued lamella around an arrangement of clamp frames which are bolted to the floor.

Drawings available on request 1. Glulam ltd has the largest stock of glulam beams in the uk. Any size project commissioned from a beam to a bridge. Pitched and tapered beams taper from the tangent point to a minimum end depth to provide maximum economy.

Pitched tapered beams these glulam beams follow the straight roof pitch on their top edge while the bottom forms a radius curve.