Fatigue behaviour of composite tubes under multiaxial loading

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Acknowledgements
Fifth International Conference on Fatigue of Composites
The authors gratefully acknowledge the support by the German Science Foundation (DFG) within the
project PAK267 (Effects of Defects).
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