Stock material or miscellaneous articles – Structurally defined web or sheet – Including grain – strips – or filamentary elements in...
Patent
1994-06-30
1996-10-15
Cannon, James C.
Stock material or miscellaneous articles
Structurally defined web or sheet
Including grain, strips, or filamentary elements in...
522238, 5230916, 527301, 527307, 52DIG7, 156178, 1563069, 1563077, 428213, 428294, 428902, B32B 508, B32B 2108, E04C 312, E04C 326, E04C 329
Patent
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055652573
ABSTRACT:
An elongated wood structural member or beam for bearing predetermined loads transverse to the lengths of the members preferably includes multiple elongate wood segments bonded together with their lengths generally aligned with the beam length as in a glue-laminated members. The predetermined load corresponds to a resisting moment that produces compressive and tensile stresses in the structural member in respective compression and tension portions of the beam on opposite sides of a neutral axis. A synthetic tension reinforcement having multiple synthetic fiber strands held within a resin matrix is adhered to at least one of the wood segments in the tension portion of the structural member and is selected to be substantially capable of bearing the tensile stress produced by the resisting moment and cooperates with the wood segments to position the neutral axis within the beam. As a result, the width and depth of the structural member and relative positions of the neutral axis and reinforcement may be selected to establish a compression portion of the structural member in which compressive stress from the resisting moment does not exceed a predetermined maximum compressive stress.
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