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Biaxial tension-compression (BTC) and biaxial compression-compression (BCC) flat coupon specimens with flexible end reinforcements were designed and tested to study failure behaviors and mechanisms of composite laminates under a biaxial tension-compression and biaxial compression-compression stress states. Tubular specimens loaded in axial tension, axial compression, torsion, internal pressure, and external pressure were employed to produce desired combinations of in-plane stresses and strains. Based on the biaxial failure envelopes obtained from the tests, notched BCC specimens (BCC(n)) were tested in a biaxial compression loading condition to study failure behavior of notched laminates under a biaxial stress state. 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