Carbon Fiber Repair for Historic Buildings, Woodwork Part 1

Layup and creation of a custom-formed carbon fiber core to replace the rotted center of a beam with crucial and visible tooling, Menokin 2008. John Greenwalt Lee

An overview of carbon fiber uses for strengthening individual timbers or floor systems. Epoxy tape can be used to support weakened timbers, but with vacuum-forming carbon fiber cloth can be form-fit to the core of hollow timbers as well.