Abstract. Several closed form finite strain equilibrium solutions are presented for a special compressible isotropic elastic material which was proposed as a model for foam rubber by Blatz and Ko. These solutions include bending of a cylindrical sector into another sector or a rectangular block, bending of a block into a sector, expansion, compaction or eversion of cylinders or spheres, and torsion and extension of circular cylinders or tubes.1. Introduction. Ericksen has examined the problems of finding all of the deformations which can be supported, in the absence of body force, in all homogeneous, isotropic, incompressible elastic solids [1], or in all homogeneous, isotropic, compressible elastic solids [2], The first category consists of all isochoric homogeneous deformations and five families of nonhomogeneous deformations, the so-called controllable or universal deformations ([1] and Singh and Pipkin [3]). The second category consists of homogeneous deformations only, i.e., there is no nonhomogeneous finite deformation which can be supported in every compressible isotropic elastic solid material without applying a body force.This latter result implies that nonhomogeneous deformations can be discussed, for compressible solids, only in the context of a particular strain energy function, or class of strain energy functions. Currie and Hayes [4] have suggested that Ericksen's results have had an unduly inhibiting effect on the study of nonhomogeneous finite deformations. For compressible solids, in particular, the analysis of such deformations is usually very complicated even for simple forms of the strain energy function and very few closed form solutions have been obtained.John [5] introduced the class of harmonic materials, for which the problem of finite plane strain simplifies considerably, and solutions of such problems have been presented by several authors [6][7][8][9][10], Abeyaratne and Horgan [11] obtained an exact solution of the problem of pressurization of a hollow sphere of harmonic material; see also Ogden [10]. Wheeler [12] has examined the deformation of a harmonic material containing an ellipsoidal cavity. Chung, Horgan, and Abeyaratne [13] obtained