  Metric anomalies arising from a distribution of point defects (intrinsic
interstitials, vacancies, point stacking faults), thermal deformation,
biological growth, etc. are well known sources of material inhomogeneity and
internal stress. By emphasizing the geometric nature of such anomalies we seek
their representations for materially uniform crystalline elastic solids. In
particular, we introduce a quasi-plastic deformation framework where the
multiplicative decomposition of the total deformation gradient into an elastic
and a plastic deformation is established such that the plastic deformation is
further decomposed multiplicatively in terms of a deformation due to
dislocations and another due to metric anomalies. We discuss our work in the
context of quasi-plastic strain formulation and Weyl geometry. We also derive a
general form of metric anomalies which yield a zero stress field in the absence
of other inhomogeneities and any external sources of stress.
