Abstract
A description is given of all possible values of the strain invariants (I 1 and I 2) that may be attained in any experiment involving isochoric deformations, and a graphical representation of the eigenvalues of the strain matrix is derived for any specified values of the invariants.
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Sawyers, K.N. On the possible values of the strain invariants for isochoric deformations. J Elasticity 7, 99–102 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00041134
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00041134