engine, docs: self-contact in nonlinear static steps

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo

docs/features.md

@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ the control channel and AI agents over MCP (docs/mcp.md) run the same commands.
 | Constraints | Reference Point — A reference point for couplings, loads and boundary conditions | ready | `model.reference_point.create`, `model.reference_point.edit`, `model.reference_point.delete` |
 | Constraints | Coupling — Kinematic or distributing coupling of a set to a reference point | ready | `model.coupling.create`, `model.coupling.edit`, `model.coupling.delete` |
 | Constraints | Tie — Tie non-matching meshes together (dual mortar constraints) | ready | `interaction.tie`, `interaction.tie.edit`, `interaction.tie.delete` |
-| Contact | General Contact — Contact between everything that may touch, or self contact of a surface, with friction (explicit dynamics) | ready | `interaction.contact.general`, `interaction.contact.edit`, `interaction.contact.delete` |
+| Contact | General Contact — Contact between everything that may touch, or self contact of a surface, with friction (explicit dynamics and nonlinear static steps) | ready | `interaction.contact.general`, `interaction.contact.edit`, `interaction.contact.delete` |
 | Contact | Contact Pair — Contact between two surfaces: with friction in explicit dynamics, mortar contact with friction in nonlinear static steps | ready | `interaction.contact.pair`, `interaction.contact.edit`, `interaction.contact.delete` |
 | Contact | Find Contacts — Find the parts of the mesh that touch, and make contact pairs of them | ready | `interaction.contact.find` |
 | Contact | Rigid Wall — Rigid walls for explicit dynamics | coming soon (M10) |  |

docs/fem.md

@@ -460,8 +460,12 @@ weighted gap g̃_A = Σ ∫ Φ_A (x_m − x_s)·n dA over the overlaps of its fa
 facing them, Φ_A the secondary face's own shape functions; ĝ_A = g̃_A / A_A with A_A = ∫ Φ_A over
 the node's faces. The pressure field is interpolated like the displacements, so a uniform
 pressure crosses a non-matching interface as the consistent nodal forces of both meshes: the
-contact patch test. Linear faces (tri3, quad4: tet4, wedge6, hex8); general contact, quadratic
-faces, 2D models and arc-length steps are refused by name.
+contact patch test. General (single-surface) contact uses one face list, a set's or every
+exterior face of the solids, as both sides: each face against every other one facing it that
+shares no node with its element (its neighbours) and that it does not reach through more than
+half an element (the far side of a thin wall), paired both ways, so the folds of one body press
+on each other symmetrically. Linear faces (tri3, quad4: tet4, wedge6, hex8); quadratic faces, 2D
+models and arc-length steps are refused by name.
 
 **Segmentation** (`fieldcraft_fem::mortar`): both faces are projected along the secondary
 face's unit normal onto its plane, the main polygon is clipped by the secondary one