Hello Mark,
Good to see your post and know your still out in the world building...
Have any of you used composite, or keyed beams before, and had them engineered?
Yes, of sorts, and built a few...
I'm not a fan of composite for historical and dedication to craft reasons, but "Keyed Beams" have been around in some form for well over 1000 years...and I love them!!!
My friend and a member of the fine team of Engineers at Fire Tower Engineered Timber wrote his PhD thesis on "Keyed Beams." I think I have a copy of it and something else in PDF form if you want to shoot me an email...But better yet Call Joe Miller at FTET and get it from the horse's mouth...
Good luck and post pictures of the project...
P.S. the picture links don't seem to be working for me...???
