From particle ensembles to Cosserat continua: homogenization of contact forces towards stresses and couple stresses

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An inverse algorithm for the identification and the sensitivity analysis of the parameters governing micropolar elasto-plastic granular material (2007, methodology): “Concerning the homogenization procedure of particle ensembles towards micropolar continua, the interested reader is referred to the work by Ehlers et al. [ 2 ] and d’Addetta et al. [3] and the quotations therein.”
On generalized Cosserat-type theories of plates and shells: a short review and bibliography (2010, unknown): “The Cosserat model is used to describe solid materials with a complex microstructure like soils, polycrystalline and composite materials, granular and powder-like materials, see [35,56,60,69,71,72,117,142,164, 165,197,205,218,224,297,299–301,306,314,324,325], nanostructures [150,149], porous media a”
Stress, stress asymmetry and couple stress: from discrete particles to continuous fields (2010, background): “a selection of some relatively recent (1995 and later) studies and reviews [5–18] and references therein; also see [19] for a review that includes historic references, and [20] concerning the coarse graining of granular gases.”