edited by R Russo (Seconda Università di Napoli, Italia)

In this volume, five papers are collected that give a good sample of the problems and the results characterizing some recent trends and advances in this theory. Some of them are devoted to the improvement of a general abstract knowledge of the behavior of elastic bodies, while the others mainly deal with more applicative topics.

• Collected Results on Finite Amplitude Plane Waves in Deformed Mooney–Rivlin Materials (Ph Boulanger and M Hayes)
• Decay Estimates for Boundary-Value Problems in Linear and Nonlinear Continuum Mechanics (C O Horgan)
• On the Traction Problem in Incompressible Linear Elasticity for Unbounded Domains (R Russo and G Starita)
• An Abstract Perturbation Problem with Symmetries Suggested by Live Boundary Problems in Elasticity (T Valent)
• Maximum Principles in Classical Elasticity (L T Wheeler)