...Professor Y.T. Feng, Professor Xikui Li, Professor Yuanqiang Tan and Professor Shunying Ji; Wenxiong Huang; Ke Xu Purpose – Cosserat continuum models are motivated by modeling size effects in materials with micro-structure. While elastic Cosserat continuum models can reproduce size effects...

... rotational degrees‐of‐freedom to the conventional translational degrees‐of‐freedom. This so‐called elasto‐plastic Cosserat continuum model, for which an efficient and accurate integration algorithm and a consistent tangent operator are also derived in this contribution, warrants convergence of the load...