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Wood curved beams construction bent laminations.
Use beam stress combinations e g.
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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.
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Pitched and tapered beams taper from the tangent point to a minimum end depth to provide maximum economy.
Actually there s no magic required.
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The rich warm feeling they create enhances any structure.
But we couldn t get good laminations with a 14 delta bandsaw.
Factory made members can be formed into any practical shape and any desired size.
Just a saw some wood some glue and a few time tested techniques.
These then were to be bent and glued up on a form.
This is a perfect example of a situation where bent lamination is a good choice.
The finished beam needs to be 10 high to mate with the one remaining original straight roof section.
The flexibility of glulam beams allows for the designer s creative imagination to be realised.
So your best bet with heavilyt curved parts is to either steam bed the material to shape or do a bent lamination.
The tightness of the radius will determine the thickness of the laminations.
Inside radius of 20 0 or more allows use of 2 nominal laminations.
Radial curved elliptical shapes and reverse curves are all possible.
Optimal roof pitch is 2 12 to 3 12 though other roof pitches are possible.
Laminated beams offer many advantages when building homes schools churches and commercial recreational and agricultural structures.
The questioner and i were planning to resaw 16 foot 2x10s to make 1 4 inch thick laminations.
The concept is actually pretty simple.