The first Piola-Kirchhoff stress tensor maps a reference normal to force per reference area. The Cauchy stress tensor maps a current normal to force per current area. Nanson's formula gives . Equating the actual surface force in both descriptions gives , and therefore
For incompressibility . The strain-energy derivative only fixes the constitutive stress up to a constraint reaction in hyperelastic stress: , hence . The scalar is a Lagrange multiplier determined by equilibrium and boundary tractions, rather than by the isochoric energy alone.
In principal stretch axes, the extra principal stress is , up to that arbitrary spherical reaction. With , its eigenvalues are , so isotropy yields
For the prescribed simple shear,
The faces retain normal , and zero traction there gives . Thus
This constant stress satisfies the interior equilibrium equation, and the remaining face forces maintain the deformation.
To compute the angle, the material face becomes the spatial plane . Its outward unit normal and an in-plane unit tangent are
Resolve the current traction into these directions:
Since for nonzero , the angle lies above , and
Using at zero gives
Using the undeformed normal would give the wrong coefficient. The transformed unit normal is essential to this simple-shear traction angle for a Mooney-Rivlin solid.