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Book Information:

Author: T. Valent
Title: Boundary value problems of finite elasticity
Additional book information: Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 1988, xii+192 pp., $64.00. ISBN 0-387-96550-5.

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    Review Information:

    Reviewer: Philippe G. Ciarlet
    Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 23 (1990), 209-222
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1990-15934-8