[PAR35]

(I assume you can't just rivet on a new piece of carbon composite, or can you?)?

I would think that you'd use glue instead of rivets. I'll leave any discussion about structural issues to the engineers.

[phantomworker]

I'm not a structural engineer, but I'm pretty sure you can't just use glue instead of rivets, unless you have a portable autoclave. Interesting idea, though.