The
Cauchy stress in a
compressible hyperelastic material with a stress free reference configuration is given by : \boldsymbol{\sigma} = \cfrac{2}{J}\left[\cfrac{1}{J^{2/3}}\left(\cfrac{\partial{W}}{\partial \bar{I}_1} + \bar{I}_1~\cfrac{\partial{W}}{\partial \bar{I}_2}\right)\boldsymbol{B} - \cfrac{1}{J^{4/3}}~\cfrac{\partial{W}}{\partial \bar{I}_2}~\boldsymbol{B} \cdot\boldsymbol{B} \right] + \left[\cfrac{\partial{W}}{\partial J} - \cfrac{2}{3J}\left(\bar{I}_1~\cfrac{\partial{W}}{\partial \bar{I}_1} + 2~\bar{I}_2~\cfrac{\partial{W}}{\partial \bar{I}_2}\right)\right]~\boldsymbol{I} For a compressible Mooney–Rivlin material, : \cfrac{\partial{W}}{\partial \bar{I}_1} = C_1 ~;~~ \cfrac{\partial{W}}{\partial \bar{I}_2} = C_2 ~;~~ \cfrac{\partial{W}}{\partial J} = \frac{2}{D_1}(J-1) Therefore, the Cauchy stress in a compressible Mooney–Rivlin material is given by : \boldsymbol{\sigma} = \cfrac{2}{J}\left[\cfrac{1}{J^{2/3}}\left(C_1 + \bar{I}_1~C_2\right)\boldsymbol{B} - \cfrac{1}{J^{4/3}}~C_2~\boldsymbol{B} \cdot\boldsymbol{B} \right] + \left[\frac{2}{D_1}(J-1)- \cfrac{2}{3J}\left(C_1\bar{I}_1 + 2C_2\bar{I}_2~\right)\right]\boldsymbol{I} It can be shown, after some algebra, that the
pressure is given by : p := -\tfrac{1}{3}\,\text{tr}(\boldsymbol{\sigma}) = -\frac{\partial W}{\partial J} = -\frac{2}{D_1} (J-1) \,. The stress can then be expressed in the form : \boldsymbol{\sigma} =-p~\boldsymbol{I} + \cfrac{1}{J}\left[ \cfrac{2}{J^{2/3}}\left(C_1 + \bar{I}_1~C_2\right)\boldsymbol{B} - \cfrac{2}{J^{4/3}}~C_2~\boldsymbol{B}\cdot\boldsymbol{B} -\cfrac{2}{3}\left(C_1\,\bar{I}_1 + 2C_2\,\bar{I}_2\right)\boldsymbol{I}\right] \,. The above equation is often written using the unimodular tensor \bar{\boldsymbol{B}} = J^{-2/3}\,\boldsymbol{B} : : \boldsymbol{\sigma} = -p~\boldsymbol{I} + \cfrac{1}{J}\left[2\left(C_1 + \bar{I}_1~C_2\right)\bar{\boldsymbol{B}} - 2~C_2~\bar{\boldsymbol{B}}\cdot\bar{\boldsymbol{B}} -\cfrac{2}{3}\left(C_1\,\bar{I}_1 + 2C_2\,\bar{I}_2\right)\boldsymbol{I}\right] \,. For an
incompressible Mooney–Rivlin material with J = 1 there holds p = 0 and \bar \boldsymbol B = \boldsymbol B . Thus : \boldsymbol{\sigma} = 2\left(C_1 + I_1~C_2\right)\boldsymbol{B} - 2C_2~\boldsymbol{B}\cdot\boldsymbol{B} -\cfrac{2}{3}\left(C_1\,I_1 + 2C_2\,I_2\right)\boldsymbol{I}\,. Since \det J = 1 the
Cayley–Hamilton theorem implies : \boldsymbol{B}^{-1} = \boldsymbol{B}\cdot\boldsymbol{B} - I_1~\boldsymbol{B} + I_2~\boldsymbol{I}. Hence, the Cauchy stress can be expressed as : \boldsymbol{\sigma} = -p^{*}~\boldsymbol{I} + 2 C_1~\boldsymbol{B} - 2C_2~\boldsymbol{B}^{-1} where p^{*} := \tfrac{2}{3}(C_1~I_1 - C_2~I_2). \, ==Cauchy stress in terms of principal stretches==