Table of Contents
| Introduction | |
| Riccardo De Pascalis | i-iii |
| Acknowledgements | |
| Riccardo De Pascalis | v |
| Contents | |
| Riccardo De Pascalis | vii-viii |
| Abstract | |
| Riccardo De Pascalis | 1-3 |
| Sunto | |
| Riccardo De Pascalis | 5-7 |
| Résumé | |
| Riccardo De Pascalis | 9-12 |
| Introduction to Elasticity | |
| Riccardo De Pascalis | 13-24 |
| Strain energy functions | |
| Riccardo De Pascalis | 25-35 |
| Inverse methods | |
| Riccardo De Pascalis | 37-58 |
| Isochoric deformations of compressible materials | |
| Riccardo De Pascalis | 59-89 |
| Secondary deformations in nonlinear elasticity | |
| Riccardo De Pascalis | 91-107 |
| Euler buckling for compressible cylinders | |
| Riccardo De Pascalis | 109-117 |
| Appendix A: Articles in the press relating our work [27] | |
| Riccardo De Pascalis | 119-127 |
| Appendix B | |
| Riccardo De Pascalis | 129 |
| Bibliography | |
| Riccardo De Pascalis | 131-140 |

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