The rich warm feeling they create enhances any structure.
Wood curved beams construction bent laminations.
So your best bet with heavilyt curved parts is to either steam bed the material to shape or do a bent lamination.
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And the designer would prefer to see 3 thick pieces which means i have to make 24 3 x3 x10 beams curved on a 6 radius.
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These then were to be bent and glued up on a form.
Radial curved elliptical shapes and reverse curves are all possible.
Rather than steam bending or bent lamination i am going to miter cut and join several pieces together and then use a bandsaw to rough out the shape finishing with a router template to get matching curves.
Use beam stress combinations e g.
The flexibility of glulam beams allows for the designer s creative imagination to be realised.
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The concept is actually pretty simple.
This is a perfect example of a situation where bent lamination is a good choice.
The questioner and i were planning to resaw 16 foot 2x10s to make 1 4 inch thick laminations.
Factory made members can be formed into any practical shape and any desired size.
Actually there s no magic required.
The finished beam needs to be 10 high to mate with the one remaining original straight roof section.
Pitched and tapered beams taper from the tangent point to a minimum end depth to provide maximum economy.
Optimal roof pitch is 2 12 to 3 12 though other roof pitches are possible.
But we couldn t get good laminations with a 14 delta bandsaw.
Just a saw some wood some glue and a few time tested techniques.
Laminated beams offer many advantages when building homes schools churches and commercial recreational and agricultural structures.