Engineered Wood

Products
Monica A. Snow
Associate Professor
Wentworth Institute of Technology

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Categories
Panel Products
Plywood
Oriented Strand Board (OSB)
Glulam
Engineered Joists
I -Joists
Open web joists
Structural Composite Lumber (SCL)
Parallel Strand Lumber (PSL)
Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL)
Laminated Strand Lumber (LSL)

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Panel Products
Plywood
-- plies of veneer (odd number)
-- cross-laminated lay-up
-- grain of faces oriented in the longitudinal
direction

Source: APA-The Engineered Wood Association

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Oriented Strand Board
-- strands (long wide flakes)
-- outer layers oriented in the
longitudinal direction
-- central layers either crossoriented or random alignment

Source: APA-The Engineered Wood Association

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Glulam
-- solid-sawn structural
lumber
-- face bonded

Source: APA-The Engineered Wood Association

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Engineered Joist
I-Joist
I Joists (in place)
flange
flange

Source: R. Jonckheere- The Calculated Wood

web

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Engineered Joist
Open web joist

Source: Open Joist 2000

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Structural Composite Lumber (SCL)

Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL)
Parallel Strand Lumber (PSL)
Laminated Strand Lumber (LSL)

Source: Trus Joist, A Weyerhaueser Business

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Laminated Veneer Lumber: LVL

-- plies of veneer
-- grain of all plies oriented in the same
direction

Source: Boise Cascade

Source: APA-The Engineered Wood Association

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LVL
Material formed by bonding wood veneer with a
phenol-resorcinol based adhesive.
Veneer aligned with similar orientation with the
length of the member.

Source: Trus Joist, A Weyerhaueser Business

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Parallel Strand Lumber: PSL

-- long strands cut

from veneer
-- continuous feed
process
-- billet product

Source: R. Jonckheere- The Calculated Wood

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PSL
Material formed from rotary peeled wood veneer
strands coated with a phenol-formaldehyde based
adhesive.
Strands aligned with similar orientation with the
length of the member.

Source: Trus Joist, A Weyerhaueser Business

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Laminated Strand Lumber: LSL

-- strands
(longer than OSB strands)
-- logs need not be peeled
-- billet product

Source: APA-The Engineered Wood Association

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LSL
Material formed from sliced wood strands and
bonded with an isocyanate based adhesive.
Strands aligned parallel to the length of the
member.

Source: Trus Joist, A Weyerhaueser Business