1. Department of Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong;2. Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Boîte Courrier 187, Paris Cedex 05, France
Abstract:
The intrinsic formulation of the displacement-traction problem of nonlinear elasticity is a system of partial differential equations and boundary conditions whose unknown is the Cauchy–Green strain tensor field instead of the deformation as is customary. We explicitly identify here the boundary conditions satisfied by the Cauchy–Green strain tensor field appearing in such intrinsic formulations.