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- set mu_c to 0
- introduce the shear correction factor 'kappa'

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using the ideas of Patrizio Neff.

In particular, this code should handle real 3d continua, as well
as Neff-style Cosserat shells.

This initial commit only adds a lot of infrastructure.

[[Imported from SVN: r7339]]

[[Imported from SVN: r5726]]