Retain the material frame indifference assumption used in part (c), in addition to material isotropy. Put , and . For this antiplane shear,
The invariant identities give and . Hence the restriction of the strain energy density is
Antiplane energy does not determine the full stress: the restriction gives one scalar energy along antiplane gradients. It does not determine the full stress derivative with respect to every entry of .
Indeed, using the isotropic hyperelastic stress invariant representation and differentiating the energy, with denoting the corresponding partial derivatives, gives
Using , the general objective isotropic Cauchy stress tensor is
All derivatives are evaluated at the current invariant triple. The extra terms generally remain nonzero on antiplane gradients, so the printed assertion that the full stress must be does not follow.
A stress-free, objective isotropic counterexample is the compressible neo-Hookean solid , with . Its derivative is , so on antiplane gradients
Take . Then but , whereas and . The diagonal entry would force , contradicting the shear entry. Thus this is not a matter of choosing the right scalar coefficient.
For the additional one-invariant constitutive assumption , the stronger formula does hold, with
This is a valid special case, rather than a consequence of material isotropy alone. For the general restricted energy, the shear entries are still fixed: and , since along . The full normal stress needs the constitutive information that the printed claim omits. If material isotropy alone is interpreted without material frame indifference, even the first reduction to needs that additional material frame indifference assumption.
The displacement field is , and its gradient is . Linear elasticity expands about an undeformed stress-free reference state, taking with and external loads of the same small order. A rigid translation need not itself be small; it is the deformation gradient that controls the infinitesimal strain tensor.
For with , a Taylor series gives
The constant can be set to zero. The tensor is the elasticity tensor. Commutation of continuous mixed partial derivatives proves its major symmetry:
Material frame indifference at a stress-free reference also makes the quadratic energy depend only on the infinitesimal strain tensor , leading to the usual minor symmetries after spatial and reference indices are identified.
In this scaling, an external force of order may be evaluated on the reference geometry: its change due to the order- displacement contributes only at order . Thus the leading forces are fixed dead loads. Likewise , and , so the Piola transformation gives . Hence Cauchy and first Piola stresses agree to linear order. This reasoning uses the usual small-load, stress-free linearization; an order-one prestress or leading follower-load effect requires a different expansion.