A viscoelastic thin rod model for large deformations: Numerical examples

We present a Cosserat-based 3D–1D dimensional reduction for a viscoelastic finite strain model. The numerical resolution of the reduced coupled minimization/evolution problem is based on a splitting method. We start by approximating the minimization problem using the finite element method with P1 Lagrange elements. The solution of this problem is used in the time-incremental formulation of the evolution problem.