“…Bars should be inserted into the cut-out grooves and bonded with a resin (e.g., epoxy resins). Many researchers [ 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 ] conducted tests and theoretical analyses of solid and glued timber. Raftery and Kelly [ 25 ], for example, reinforced poor- quality glued timber by means of installing basalt FRP bars.…”