Wood Construction

Class Instructor :
RINO D.A. FERNANDEZ

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GLUE-LAMINATED (GLULAM)
- a modified solid wood in which the weakening
influence of growth-related defects has been largely
cancelled out.
- composed of at least three sheets of softwood timber
glued under pressure, parallel lo the grain, to create
stable building elements

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TYPES OF GLUE:
Urea-formaldehyde resin (UF)
Melamine modified urea-formaldehyde
resin (MUF)
Phenol resorcinol resin (PRF)
Polyurethane (PU)

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GLUED LAMINATED BEAMS

- are solid, flat, building elements. They are
composed of layers of boards or planks connected to
each other with nails or hardwood drift bolts.

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LAMINATED VENEER LUMBER (LVL)

- an engineered timber composite manufactured by
laminating wood veneers using exterior-type
adhesives.

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LAMINATED STRAND LUMBER (LSL)

- is produced from strands of wood, up to 300 mm in
length and 30 mm in width, or species combinations
blended with a polyurethane-based adhesive.

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PARALLEL STRAND LUMBER (PSL)

The manufacturing process involves peeling smalldiameter logs into veneer sheets. The veneers are then
dried to a moisture content of 23% and then cut into
thin long strands oriented parallel to one another

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ORIENTED STRAND BOARD (OSB)

an engineered structural board manufactured from
thin wood strands, flakes or wafers sliced from smalldiameter round timber logs and bonded with an
exterior type adhesive (comprising 95% wood, 5%
resin and wax) under heat and pressure

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THIN WEBBED JOISTS (I-JOISTS)

I-joists are structurally engineered timber joists
comprising flanges made from solid timber or LVL
and a web made from OSB, plywood or particleboard.
The flanges and web are bonded together to form an
I-section member, a structurally efficient alterative to
conventional solid timber

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BOARDS
Unplaned softwood boards and planks are parallel
square-edged materials.
Planed softwood boards and planks are planed smooth
on one side and processed to an even thickness on the
back, The edges are neither planed nor profiled.

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BOARDS
Matched boards are boards with grooves and planed
tongues.

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JOINTS AND FASTENERS

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Rectangular Wooden Dowels

used as joints & fasteners subject to shearing
stress

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Rectangular Steel Anchor

Inserted into recesses across the grain, held with
splices & secured with locking bolts

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Specially Designed Anchors

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Bolts
Bolts are pin-shaped fasteners made of round
steel with heads, threads and nuts; they are
driven into drilled holes with a maximum diameter
1 mm greater than their own, with washers on
each side

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Nail Plates
These are 1-2 mm thick steel sheets with nail or
claw-shapes punched and bent out on one or both
sides.

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Angle Connectors
- a perforated plate angle or from punched sheet
used for connecting and fastening

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Rafter-to-purlin Connectors/purlin Anchors

- use for connecting crossing beams.

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Track anchors/profile anchors/wood connection

anchors
- use to fasten wooden elements into anchor
tracks or with steel profiles

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Pillar Bases
Pillar bases (pillar bracket, post holder) serve to
connect the pillar with the foundation or the ceiling.
The connection is made by fixing base plates &
dowels onto the concrete or by using ribbed rock
dowels & grouting in the recesses in the concrete.

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