SB: Re: post and beam sb house

[Speireag Alden <Joshua.M.Alden.91@alum.dartmouth.org>]

Sgrìobh David J Heritage:

>Its interesting that your engineer equated a built up 6x8 to a solid 6x6.
>An old structural design book I have says "A built-up beam thus
>constructed has a strength equal to the sum of the strengths of the
>individual pieces."

     That seems odd to me, too.  I had heard that built-up beams were 
stronger than the equivalent solid wood, because any flaws were only 
as wide as a single member.

-Speireag.
-- 
Speireag Alden, aka Joshua Macdonald Alden
Usually found somewhere in the wilds of New Hampshire.
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