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Glulam MBF

By WoodEngineering Posted on June 19, 2024 Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with beam, BF, cost, douglas fir, glued laminated timber, glulam, lam stock, lamination, MBF, MBRM, nominal, structural, thousand

So, in another post we looked at `board feet’ (BF), or `board foot measure’ (BFM). Now we’ll look at BF for structural glued laminated timber (glulam), and MBF, or MBFM. From the earlier post, amount of lumber is often described …

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6 x 6 sawn post vs 3-ply 2 x 6

By WoodEngineering Posted on May 9, 2022 Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with adjustment, allow, allowable, bolt, buckle, calc, calculate, capacity, center, centric, column, commentary, compression, corner, D-F, design, DF, DF/L, Douglas, eccentric, engineer, factor, fir, framed, framing, grade, height, in, lam, lamination, larch, length, min, minimum, multi, multiple, nail, national, National Design Specification, NDS, parallel, plain, ply, post, ratio, rip, short, slender, slenderness, snap, specification, stability, stable, stress, stud, substitute, Supplement, tall, to grain, trade, value, wall, wood

6 x 6 wood post versus 3-ply 2 x 6 © Jeff R. Filler, May 2022, Pell City (DRAFT) If you are an a professional engineer providing designs (or fixes) for wood-frame construction, sooner or later you will be asked, …

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Glulam MBF

6 x 6 sawn post vs 3-ply 2 x 6