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This paper deals chiefly with various issues pertaining to the existence and uniqueness of a finite deformation that gives rise to a prescribed right or left Cauchy-Green strain-tensor field.
Following a review and discussion of available existence and uniqueness theorems appropriate to a pre-assigned right strain field, the extent of uniqueness of a generating deformation is established under minimal smoothness and invertibility assumptions.
The remainder of the paper is devoted to the more involved corresponding existence and uniqueness questions for a given left strain-tensor field. These questions are first discussed in a three-dimensional setting and are then resolved for the special class of plane deformations. The results thus obtained stand in marked contrast to their counterparts for a given right strain field.
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Blume, J.A. Compatibility conditions for a left Cauchy-Green strain field. J Elasticity 21, 271–308 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00045780
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