“…Moreover, special care had to be undertaken in the selection of the rate elastic constitutive equation (2) for the approach to be compatible with the notion of hyperelasticity (see, e.g., Simo and Pister [1984]) which requires the existence of a stored energy function. Elasticity without a stored energy function is difficult to motivate physically, since it may result in aberrant elastic behavior which may be manifested by hysteretic energy dissipation (see, e.g., Bernstein [1960]) and/or residual stresses after a closed strain path (see, e.g., Lin [2002]; Lin et al [2003], Meyers et al [2003]). In this work, the large strain generalized plasticity theory is revisited and further extended by introducing the concept of the logarithmic rate that treats the aforementioned inconsistency.…”