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The uniqueness of mechanical response can be lost for a material with
softening. For a non-viscous material, two methods are widely used to
predict this phenomenon: the linear perturbation method and the bifurc
ation analysis. In this paper we prove that the latter method should b
e considered as a limit case of the former one, as already observed in
some particular cases. (C) Academie des Sciences/Elsevier, Paris.