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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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Board Foot Measure (BFM)

By WoodEngineering Posted on June 19, 2024 Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with BF, BFM, board feet, board foot, board foot measure, construction, dimension, dimensional, lumber, NDS, NDS Supplement, nominal, nominal dimension, wood

We had a windstorm recently … some big trees down. After cutting up most of the fallen ones on my property (taking a couple weeks), I started in on one of my neighbor’s. One of `em is a big oak. …

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By WoodEngineering Posted on February 28, 2023 Posted in wind loads Tagged with 3, 3-sec, 33, 7, ASCE, ASD, basic, boundary, building, code, design, fastest, feet, gust, hazard, interval, layer, mile, nominal, recurrence, risk, safety, second, speed, structure, ULT, V, velocity, wind

V (pronounced `Veeee’, in wood engineering, in any particular usage, generally stands for one of two things. As pertaining to loads and forces in (inside of) wood structural members themselves, V stands for `Shear’, in particular `horizontal shear’, and specifically …

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Glulam MBF

Board Foot Measure (BFM)

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