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In any geometrically nonlinear, isotropic and quadratic Cosserat micropolar extended continuum model formulated in the deformation gradient field $F = \nabla\varphi : \Omega \to GL^+(n)$ and the microrotation field $R: \Omega \to SO(n)$,…
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