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We adopt the view that growth is modeled by a multiplicative decomposition of the deformation gradient from an unstressed configuration to the reference configuration through a virtual state suitable to describe the stress at each material point.
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Goriely, A. (2017). Balance Laws. In: The Mathematics and Mechanics of Biological Growth. Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics, vol 45. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-87710-5_13
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