From: bangerth <bangerth@0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 07:06:04 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Announce step-44.
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Announce step-44.


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     <a href="../doxygen/deal.II/changes_after_7_1.html">here.</a></p>
 
     <dl>
+      <dt>
+          <strong>2012/04/02: step-44 &mdash; a finite strain
+          elasticity solver</strong>
+      </dt>
+      <dd>
+          step-44, contributed by Andrew McBride and Jean-Paul
+          Perlteret, demonstrates one approach to modelling large
+          deformations of nearly-incompressible elastic solids. The
+          elastic response is governed by a non-linear, hyperelastic
+          free-energy function. The geometrical response is also
+          nonlinear, i.e., the program considers finite deformations.
+      </dd>
+
+
       <dt>
           <strong>2012/04/02: step-41 solves the obstacle problem</strong>
       </dt>
       <dd>
-          step-41, a program contributes by J&ouml;rg Frohne, shows
+          step-41, a program contributed by J&ouml;rg Frohne, shows
           how to solve the obstacle problem. This problem describes
           the deformation of a body subject to an inequality
           constraint that arises from the fact that the deformation is