In Section 2 an overview of QLV in the context of compressible materials is given and the problem in hand here, i.e. simple
shear, is stated. Note that timescales are assumed slow enough that the effects of inertia can be ignored. Explicit expressions
are provided for the non-zero components of stress in terms of a general strain energy function. When the deformation is
prescribed (i.e. for strain or displacement controlled experiments) this can simply be fed into these expressions to provide
a prediction of the resulting stresses. On the other hand, in cases when the traction is prescribed these relations are nonlinear
Volterra integral equations which must be solved for the resulting deformation (shear) field. Therefore, in Section 3 the procedure
for solving the resulting integral equations is described, based upon the method introduced in De Pascalis et al., 2014.
Since the above analysis applies to compressible materials, in Section 4 it is described how the various details are modified
when the constraint of incompressibility, common in biomechanical and rubber-like material applications, is imposed. In
Section 5 a number of results are given, associated with the simple-shear problem. It is shown that, even for this isochoric
deformation, compressibility does have an effect on the resulting deformation and stress fields. The energy dissipated for a
deformation that is piecewise linear in time is determined, as well as energy loss per unit cycle for oscillatory shear. We close
in Section 6 with a brief summary and some directions for future research