The Yeoh hyperelastic material model[1] is a phenomenological model for the deformation of nearly incompressible, nonlinear[disambiguation needed] elastic materials such as rubber. The model is based on Ronald Rivlin's observation that the elastic properties of rubber may be described using a strain energy density function which is a power series in the strain invariants of the Cauchy-Green deformation tensors.[2] The Yeoh model for incompressible rubber is a function only of . For compressible rubbers, a dependence on is added on. Since a polynomial form of the strain energy density function is used but all the three invariants of the left Cauchy-Green deformation tensor are not, the Yeoh model is also called the reduced polynomial model.