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5.12.1 Uniaxial Active Contraction
For this model, the active stress is acting along a prescribed direction given by the unit vector in the reference configuration. The Piola-Kirchhoff stress is and the Cauchy stress is where is the prescribed contractile stress and . Since is not a function of deformation, the material and spatial tangents are both zero.