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The first paper,due to Ph.Boulanger amd M.Hayes,aims at giving a complete and systematic exposition of a body of selected results concerning the propagation of finite-amplitude plane waves in a deformed Mooney-Rivlin material.Such a system,when assumed to be homgeneous,isotropic and incompressible,may be envisaged as s a “rubberlike material”.
The paper by C.O.Horgan provides a reiview of recent results concerning the decay at large spatial distnce of solutions to(systems of)elliptic partial differential equations.This problem is of great relevance in connection with the wel-known Saint-Venant principle in elasticity and also with entry flows for viscous incompressible fluids.