Other common engineered wood products include plywood oriented strandboard osb and laminated veneer lumber lvl.
Blued laminated construction.
Glued laminated timber also abbreviated glulam is a type of structural engineered wood product constituted by layers of dimensional lumber bonded together with durable moisture resistant structural adhesives.
Glue laminated construction glulam products are large manufactured structural products used in commercial and residential applications.
This engineered wood product is composed of multiple laminations of kiln dried end.
Glued laminated wood glulam is a structural material manufactured through the union of individual wood segments.
In north america the material providing the laminations is termed laminating stock or lamstock.
When glued with industrial adhesives usually melamine or polyurethane resin.
A glue laminated timber is an engineered wood product meaning it is made from wood but is machined and assembled to precise specifications to create a predictable dimensionally stable building material.
The glulam product guide form x440 describes apa trademarked glulam addresses important design considerations and includes a specification guide it also highlights some of the many applications where glulam is used in construction.
Because of the laminated construction technique beam depth can be supplied much larger than solid timbers which are normally limited to 16 20 inches of depth with beams up to 60 deep having been manufactured.