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14 Yu-yu ZHANG, Hao LI, and Heng XIAO mechanics of the network structures of long chainlike macromolecules, while from the viewpoint of continuum mechanics, the latter assumes direct expressions of elastic potentials with a set of adjustable parameters. Reviews of the statistical mechanics treatment were presented by Treloar[1] and Gent[2] for earlier results and by Boyce and Arruda[3], Fried[4], Ogden et al.[5], Drozdov[6], Beatty[7], and Miehe et al.[8] for recent results. Results from the phenomenological approach may be found in Ref. [9] for earlier results and in Refs. [10]–[16] and references therein for recent results. For both approaches, a number of unknown parameters would be estimated in fitting test data, and usually good agreement with the test data may be achieved only for part of the stretch range. Most recently, a direct approach[17–18] has been proposed to derive elastic potentials based on Hencky’s logarithmic strain and interpolation procedures. This new approach presents ex- plicit results that exactly match the finite strain data for the foregoing four benchmark tests, thus bypassing usual cumbersome numerical procedures in estimating a number of unknown parameters. The biaxial stretch test in a general sense has not been treated in the aforementioned newest study. That is also the case for the existing results in literatures. It is the main objective of this study to construct new elastic potentials in a further sense and compare the predictions of the further result with the extensive data given by Rivlin and Saunders[19]. The arrangement of the main context is as follows: the main method and the main result are given in Section 2. In Section 3, the theoretical predictions are derived for the biaxial stretch be- havior and then compared with Rivlin and Saunders’ data. The discussion is made in Section 4.