Fabricated Wood Components

 

ASD/LRFD Manual for Engineered Wood Construction

• Section M5: Structural Glued Laminated Timber  (textbook chapter 5)
• Section M7: Prefabricated Wood I-Joists
• Section M8: Structural Composite Lumber
• Section M9: Wood Structural Panels  (textbook chapter 8)

 

Structural Composite Lumber (SCL)

reconstituted wood product, dimensionally stable, less variability (dispersion of defects)

Weyerhaeuser Engineered Wood Products

 

1. laminated veneer lumber (LVL)

similar to plywood, but all plies in one direction

2. parallel strand lumber (PSL)

5/8" x 8' strands

3. laminated strand lumber (LSL)

12"-long strands

4. oriented strand lumber (OSL)

similar to OSB

up to 6"-long strands

 

wood beams, wood walls, wood-to-steel, wood-to-concrete, formwork

 

I-Joists

 

Trusses

floor: all wood

floor: wood + steel plates

roof: different kinds of presses

roof: 100' span

 

Fiber-Reinforced Glulam