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Glued laminated timber
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Glued laminated timber, also called glulam, is a type of structural
timber product comprising a number of layers of dimensioned
timber bonded together with durable, moisture-resistant structural
adhesives. In North America the material providing the laminations
is termed laminating stock or lamstock
By laminating a number of smaller pieces of timber, a single large,
strong, structural member is manufactured from smaller pieces.
These structural members are used as vertical columns or horizontal
beams, as well as curved, arched shapes. Glulam is readily produced
in curved shapes and it is available in a range of species and
appearance characteristics to meet varied end-use requirements.!'1
Connections are usually made with bolts or plain steel dowels and
steel plates. Glulam frame used for a roof structre
Glulam optimizes the structural values of a renewable resource —
wood. Because of their composition, large glulam members can be manufactured from a variety of smaller
trees harvested from second- and third-growth forests and plantations, Glulam provides the strength and
versatility of large wood members without relying on the old growth-dependent solid-sawn timbers, 2/3 As
with other engineered wood products, it reduces the overall amount of wood used when compared to solid
sawn timbers by diminishing the negative impact of knots and other small defects in each component board
Glulam has much lower embodied energy than reinforced concrete and steel, although of course it does
entail more embodied energy than solid timber. However, the laminating process allows timber to be used
for much longer spans, heavier loads, and complex shapes. Glulam is two-thirds the weight of steel and one
sixth the weight of concrete — the embodied energy to produce it is six times less than the same suitable
strength of steel.|3! Glulam can be manufactured to a variety of straight and curved configurations so it
offers architects artistic freedom without sacrificing structural requirements.!"1
The high strength and stiffness of laminated timbers enable glulam beams and arches to span large
distances without intermediate columns, allowing more design flexibility than with traditional timber
construction, The size is limited only by transportation and handling constraints.[°)
Contents
1 Glulam versus steel
2 History
3 Sports structures
4 Glulam bridges
$US, manufacturing
6 European Standards Organisation (CEN) standards
7 See also
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Glulam versus steel
A 2002 case study comparing energy use, greenhouse gas emissions and costs for roof beams found it takes
two to three times more energy and six to twelve times more fossil fuels to manufacture steel beams than it
does to manufacture glulam beams. It compared two options for a roof structure of a new airport in Oslo,
‘Norway ~ steel beams and glulam spruce wood beams. The life eycle greenhouse gas emission is lower for
the glulam beams. If they are burned at the end of their service life, more energy can be recovered than was
used to manufacture them. If they are landfilled, the glulam beams result in greater greenhouse gas
emissions than the steel beams. The cost of the glulam beams is slightly lower than the steel beams. |!
History
One of the earliest still-standing glulam roof structures is generally
acknowledged!” to be the assembly room of King Edward VI
College, a school in Bugle Street, Southampton, England, dating
from 1866, designed by Josiah George Poole, The building is now
the Marriage Room of Southampton Register Office. 8]
Two churches in Northumberland are now thought to have the
earliest extant uses: oly Trinity, Cambo (1842), and Holy Trinity,
Horsley (1844), and four 1850s Merseyside churches also feature
laminated timbers: St Mary, Grassendale, St Luke, Formby, St Paul, Gtulam dome roofing the tower of
Tranmere and Holy Trinity, Parr Mount, St Helens. the University of Zurich, built using
f the Hetzer system in 1911.
The first industrial patented use was in Weimar, Germany. Here in .
1872l7] Otto Hetzer set up a steam sawmill and carpentry business in
Kohlstrasse. Beginning in 1892, he took out a series of patents. DRP
‘No. 63018 was for a ventilated timber floor deck that could be
tightened laterally after installation, to compensate for shrinkage
Hetzer continued to patent various ingenious systems, but the first of
these that could be compared with subsequently standardised
horizontal glulam was DRP No. 197773, dated 1906, This entailed
vertical columns which transitioned into curved glued laminated
eaves zones, and then became sloped rafters, all in a single
laminated unit, Each component, bonded under pressure, comprised __ Richmond Olympic Oval intern view
three or more horizontally arranged laminations.
In other words, the glulam portal frame was born, In 1895, Hetzer moved his company to Ettersburger
Strasse, still in Weimar. At the height of production, in around 1917, he employed about 300 workers, and
Miller includes a fine engraving of the railway sidings and works in 1921
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In 1909, the Swiss engineering consultants Terner & Chopard’! purchased permission to use Hetzer's
patent, and employed glulam in a number of projects. These included the former Hygiene Institute, Zurich,
1911, now the main building of the university, where the bell-shaped roof dome is still to be seen.
The technology arrived in North America in 1934 when Max Hanisch, Sr., who had worked with Hetzer at
the tum of the century, formed a firm in Peshtigo, Wisconsin to manufacture structural glued laminated
timber
A significant development in the glulam industry was the introduction of fully water-resistant phenol-
resorcinol adhesive in 1942. This allowed glulam to be used in exposed exterior environments without
concern of gluline degradation. The first U.S. manufacturing standard for glulam was Commercial Standard
CS253-63, which was published by the Department of Commerce in 1963. The most recent standard is
ANSI/AITC Standard A190.1-02, which took effect in 2002.14
The roof of the Centre Pompidou-Metz museum is composed of sixteen kilometers of glued laminated
timber. It represents a 90-metre wide hexagon with a surface area of 8,000 m®. The glued laminated timber
motif forms hexagonal wooden units resembling the cane-work pattern of a Chinese hat.
Sports structures
Sports structures are a particularly suitable application for wide-span glulam roofs. This is supported by the
light weight of the material, combined with the ability to furnish long lengths and large cross-sections
Prefabrication is invariably employed and the structural engineer needs to develop clear method statements
for delivery and erection at an early stage in the design. The PostFinanee Arena is an example of a wide-
span sports stadium roof using glulam arches reaching up to 85 metres. ‘The structure was built in Bern in
1967, and has subsequently been refurbished and extended
The roof of the Richmond Olympic Oval, built for speed skating events at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games
in Vancouver, British Columbia, features one of the world's largest clearspan wooden structures. The roof
includes 2,400 cubic metres of Douglas-fir lamstock lumber in glulam beams. A total of 34 yellow-cedar
glulam posts support the overhangs where the roof extends beyond the walls.|°!
Glulam bridges
Pressure-treated glulam timbers or timbers manufactured from
naturally durable wood species are well suited for creating bridges
and waterfront structures, Wood’s ability to absorb impact forces
created by traffic and its natural resistance to chemicals, such as
those used for de-icing roadways, make it ideal for th
installations. Glulam has been successfully used for pedestrian,
forest, highway, and railway bridges. An example in North America
ofa glulam bridge is at Keystone Wye, South Dakota, constructed in
1966-1967.
Sneek, The Netherlands, Heavy-
The Kingsway Pedestrian Bridge in Bumaby, British Columbia, traffie Accoya Glulam Bridge
Canada, is constructed of cast-in-place concrete for the support
piers, structural steel and glulam for the arch, a post tensioned pre-cast conerete walking deck, and stainless
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steel support rods connecting the arch to the walking deck.
U.S. manufacturing
In 2015, a lumber mill in Riddle, OR, operated by D.R. Johnson
Lumber, began production of cross laminated timber panels
designed to be used to build multi-story commercial and residential
10) ef a ce the panel nie
buildings.""l 1t was the first U.S. company to produce the panels asf
components to replace steel and concrete as basic building materials ee.
for commercial and residential projects.!!°] Architects and Glulam bridge crossing Montmoreney
developers in Portland, OR, encouraged the production and said River, Quebec
they intended to use them for projects already in the planning
stages.(101
European Standards Organisation (CEN) standards
The following CEN standards are relevant to the topic of glulam. They are used by all of the countries that
subscribe to the European Committee for Standardisation:
EN 386 — Glued laminated timber — Performance requirements and minimum production
requirements
= EN 387 — Glued laminated timber — Large finger joints — Performance requirements and
minimum production requirements
EN 390 — Glued laminated timber. Sizes. Permissible deviations
EN 391 — Glued laminated timber - Delamination tests of glue lines
EN 392 — Glued laminated timber - Shear test of glue lines
EN 408 — Structural timber and glued laminated timber — Determination of some physical and
mechanical properties
= EN 1193 — Timber structures — Structural timber and glued laminated timber — Determination of
shear strength and mechanical properties perpendicular to the grain
= EN 1194 — Timber structures — Glued laminated timber — Strength classes and determination of
characteristic values
EN 14080 — Timber structures — Glued laminated timber — Requirements
See also
Fiberboard
Hardboard
I joist
Masonite
Medium-density fiberboard
Oriented strand board
Particle board
Plywood
Pressed wood
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= Laminated veneer lumber
= Parallam
= Timber framing
References
1. A Guide To Engineered Wood Products, Form C800 (hitp://www.apawood. org/SearchResults.aspx?
q-C800tid=1) (PDF), APA ~ The Engineered Wood Association. 2010. p. 7
2. Product Guide, Form No. EWS X440 (http:liwww-apawood.org/SearchResults.aspx2q=X4408tid=1) (PDF). APA
~ The Engineered Wood Association. 2008
3. Timber Engineering Europe Ltd. Glulam beams (http://www timberengineeringeurope.com/glu_bea html)
4. Canadian Wood Council Glulam (http://www. ewe. ca/NR /rdonlyres/SB9PFB 1C-409C-4B65-BE03-
338CC172FSEC/0/Glulam. pdf)
5. "About Glulam" (http://www aite-glulam.org/glulam asp). American Institute of Timber Construction. Retrieved
3 February 2015.
6. FPInnovations A Synthesis of Research on Wood Products and Greenhouse Gas Impacts page 61
(http://www. forintek.ca/publie/pdf/Public_Informationtechnical_rpVTR19%20Complete%20Pub-web. pdt)
7. Maller, Christian (2000), Laminated Timber Construction. Birkhauser. ISBN 978-3764362676.
8. Leonard, A.G.K. (Spring 2008), "Josiah George Poole (1818-1897): Architect and Surveyor serving
Southampton”
(hutp://www. southampton. gov. uk/Images/I.ocal%20History%20Journal’%20March%202008_tem46-200277 pd)
(PDF), Journal of the Southampton Local History Forum. Southampton City Council, pp, 19-21. Retrieved 2 June
2012
9. Naturally: wood Richmond Olympic Oval (http://imagelibrary-befii.ca/Viewlmage.aspx?
s=UmljaGlvbmQeT3ZhbHw=&p-0&i=17)
10. Cook, Dan. "Beam Me Up" (http://www. oregonbusiness. comvarticles/172-april-2015/1481 1-beam-me-up).
Oregon Business Magazine.
External links
American Institute of Timber Construction (http://www aite-glulam.org/)
APA — The Engineered Wood Association (http://www.apawood.org/glulam)
Glued Laminated Timber Association (UK) (http://www glulam.co.uk/)
Glulam 'the naturally engineered solution’ from BKTS (UK) (http://www. bkts.co.uk/glulam. html)
Glulam Beam Repair/Reinforcement (http://www structuremag.org/archives/2006/Sept-2006/C-
Structural-Failures-ON-LINE-VERSION pdf) - An article (Printed in STRUCTURE magazine, Sep.
2006) by Gary W. Gray PE. and Paul C. Gilham P.E.
= Timber Engineering Europe Glulam (http://www.cwe.ca/NR/rdonlyres/SB9FFB1C-409C-4B65-
BE03-338CC172FSEC/0/Glulam.pdf)
= Canadian Wood Council Glulam (http://www.ewe.ca/NR/rdonlyres/SB9FFB1C-409C-4B65-BE03-
338CC172FSEC/0/Glulam, pdt)
= Naturally:wood Engineered Wood (http://www. naturally wood com/Wood-Produets/Product-
Types/Engineered-W ood, aspx)
Glulam Romanian (http://www euroglulam.ro/)
Glulam Timber (http://www.utsdesign.com/)
Rosboro Glulam (http://www.rosboro. com/index. php?actio
http://www. wiehag. com/
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