Scarecrow. If the ply strips dont add "hoop" strength, using WRC strips would be even better?
I dont have the math to understand why, but I though the carbon fibers would take all loads longitudionally until they eventually broke. Then the wood would begin to carry loads? Is that a matter of oversimplification?
I have wondered about this- are the strength characteristics of wood and carbon different? I would figure they obviously are, so how does that work then in terms of using two difference substrates in an application that will be bending all the time? Does the wood break before the carbon or vice versa? If the properties of each are very different then one breaks before even getting near the break point of the other
