verification: implicit plasticity oracle cases and documentation

Four cases, each against its closed form: uniaxial tension of a J2 cube to a
logarithmic strain of 0.2 (Kirchhoff stress exact; 0.13 % from the explicit
solver's hypoelastic Cauchy stress, the elastic volume change between the two
laws), the Bauschinger effect of linear kinematic hardening on a load path
back to zero strain (exact), Hill's elastic-perfectly plastic thick cylinder
(bore displacement at a plastic radius of 1.5a within 0.009 %, collapse
pressure within 2e-8; the pending case is now active) and a cantilever's
plastic collapse, converged 3.1 % above beam theory's hinge, the bound a
continuum exceeds. docs/fem.md, the literature, ROADMAP (M15), parity and the
oracle page follow.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NmAttHhUZTokgPeEJia8sm

ROADMAP.md

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ pressure) is a degree of freedom of the existing DOF framework, not a separate s
 | M12 CFD: lattice Boltzmann | D3Q19/D3Q27 on grids voxelised from the face-tagged surface; TRT, regularised and cumulant collision; interpolated walls, inlets and outlets; LES (Smagorinsky, WALE) with wall models; thermal LBM and conjugate heat transfer with the structure's thermal solver; non-Newtonian viscosity (power-law, Carreau–Yasuda, Cross, Herschel–Bulkley, Bingham) and temperature-dependent viscosity; porous media (Brinkman, Darcy–Forchheimer); multiphase and free surface (M13); validation by the lid-driven cavity, backward-facing step, cylinder wake (Strouhal) and turbulent channel; octree refinement shared with the hex mesher; wgpu backend (deterministic per device, checked against the CPU) (CPU core: done — `fieldcraft-lbm` with D3Q19 TRT and Guo forcing, halfway bounce-back and moving walls, slip and periodic faces, Zou–He velocity and pressure faces, exact voxelisation of obstacle bodies, momentum-exchange forces per face; fluid materials, fluid domains and fluid steps in the model; `model.fluid_domain.*`, `solve.fluid`; verified by Poiseuille channel and pipe, Couette, Taylor–Green decay, sphere-array Stokes drag and mass conservation; Schäfer–Turek 2D-1 as a benchmark) | started |
 | M13 Fluid–structure interaction | Immersed-boundary coupling of the lattice Boltzmann fluid with the explicit or implicit structure; interface force transfer; sub-cycling; Aitken then interface quasi-Newton coupling; free-surface flow | planned |
 | M14 Blast and impact fluids | EOS-driven fluids in the explicit solver: ALE multi-material or SPH, with fluid–structure contact | planned |
-| M15 Nonlinear implicit core | Newton–Raphson with line search, automatic increments and cutbacks, convergence on force, displacement and energy; geometric nonlinearity (total and updated Lagrangian, large rotations for shells and beams, follower pressure); every `fem` material behind one interface with its consistent tangent (plasticity, damage and thermal strain from the explicit solver reused implicitly); arc-length (Riks) for snap-through; linear buckling (eigen) with preload stress stiffening, and imperfections from buckling modes; nonlinear stabilisation; restart. Verified by the elastica, Lee's frame, the snap-through arch, the hinged cylindrical shell and plastic collapse loads (solids core: done — `nonlinear_static` steps with automatic increments and cutbacks, Newton–Raphson with the consistent tangent, force, displacement and energy convergence and an optional line search; a material point interface (Kirchhoff stress and spatial tangent from F, with history) with St Venant–Kirchhoff and compressible neo-Hookean; total Lagrangian tet4, tet10, wedge6, hex8, hex20 (full and reduced), hybrid hex8/hex20/tet10 by the three-field mixed form, plane strain and axisymmetric elements; follower pressure with its symmetrised load stiffness; Cauchy stress and logarithmic strain, increment history and frames, `solve.nonlinear`; Abaqus and LS-DYNA decks; verified by the patch and objectivity tests, uniaxial stretch, the elastica and tube inflation by a follower pressure (finite-strain Cook's membrane pending its transcribed reference). Next: J2 plasticity and Mooney–Rivlin on the interface, thermal strain, incompatible modes (EAS), shells and beams, arc-length) | started |
+| M15 Nonlinear implicit core | Newton–Raphson with line search, automatic increments and cutbacks, convergence on force, displacement and energy; geometric nonlinearity (total and updated Lagrangian, large rotations for shells and beams, follower pressure); every `fem` material behind one interface with its consistent tangent (plasticity, damage and thermal strain from the explicit solver reused implicitly); arc-length (Riks) for snap-through; linear buckling (eigen) with preload stress stiffening, and imperfections from buckling modes; nonlinear stabilisation; restart. Verified by the elastica, Lee's frame, the snap-through arch, the hinged cylindrical shell and plastic collapse loads (solids core: done — `nonlinear_static` steps with automatic increments and cutbacks, Newton–Raphson with the consistent tangent, force, displacement and energy convergence and an optional line search; a material point interface (Kirchhoff stress and spatial tangent from F, with history) with St Venant–Kirchhoff and compressible neo-Hookean; total Lagrangian tet4, tet10, wedge6, hex8, hex20 (full and reduced), hybrid hex8/hex20/tet10 by the three-field mixed form, plane strain and axisymmetric elements; follower pressure with its symmetrised load stiffness; Cauchy stress and logarithmic strain, increment history and frames, `solve.nonlinear`; Abaqus and LS-DYNA decks; verified by the patch and objectivity tests, uniaxial stretch, the elastica and tube inflation by a follower pressure (finite-strain Cook's membrane pending its transcribed reference; J2 plasticity on the interface: Simo's exponential return map at finite strain and the radial return at small strain, both with consistent tangents and the return shared with explicit dynamics, bilinear isotropic and kinematic (small strain), tabulated and Johnson–Cook (rate-independent) hardening, hybrid elements included, load paths for cyclic loading, a tangent predictor for path-dependent materials, verified by uniaxial tension to large strain, Hill's thick cylinder (plastic zone and collapse pressure), a cantilever's collapse and the Bauschinger effect, with quadratic Newton convergence. Next: Mooney–Rivlin and Yeoh, thermal strain, incompatible modes (EAS), shells and beams, arc-length) | started |
 | M16 Structural dynamics | Implicit transient (Newmark, HHT-α, generalised-α); modal superposition transient; steady-state harmonic (direct and modal), with Rayleigh, modal, structural and material damping; random vibration from PSDs and response spectrum (SRSS, CQC); complex eigenvalues with damping; rotating machinery (Campbell diagrams, gyroscopic terms); substructures (Craig–Bampton) | planned |
 | M17 Constitutive library and material library | Elastic: transversely isotropic, fully anisotropic (21 constants), temperature-dependent. Elastomers: hyperelastic neo-Hookean, Mooney–Rivlin, Yeoh, Ogden, Arruda–Boyce, Gent, Marlow, with Mullins softening and finite-strain viscoelasticity (Prony series; parallel networks after Bergström–Boyce), foams. Viscoelasticity: small- and finite-strain Prony series, time–temperature superposition (WLF, Arrhenius), storage and loss moduli for harmonic steps. Viscoplasticity and creep: Norton power law, time and strain hardening, Perzyna, Anand, Chaboche combined hardening. Plasticity: Hill anisotropic, Drucker–Prager, Mohr–Coulomb, Cam-clay, crushable foam, concrete damaged plasticity, Gurson. Fluids: Newtonian and non-Newtonian viscosity shared with M12. Material library: curated, cited data sets (steels, aluminium and titanium alloys, polymers, elastomers, composites, tissues) with units and temperature dependence; calibration from test data (uniaxial, biaxial, shear, relaxation, DMA) by least squares with Drucker stability checks; user materials as a safe Rust trait | planned |
 | M18 Composites and anisotropy | Material orientations (rectangular, cylindrical, spherical, from geometry edges and faces, per-element fields, draping of fibres over curved parts); layups on shells and continuum shells, ply stacks on swept hex; classical lamination theory checks; ply stresses and strains through the thickness; failure indices (Tsai–Wu, Tsai–Hill, Hashin, Puck, LaRC) and progressive damage; homogenisation (rule of mixtures, Mori–Tanaka, RVEs with periodic boundary conditions); delamination through M20's cohesive zones. Verified by laminate closed forms and the NAFEMS composite benchmarks | planned |
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ What exists and what is missing, by area; each gap is in a milestone above.
 
 | Area | Today | Missing |
 |---|---|---|
-| Solution procedures | Linear static, nonlinear static (solids with geometric nonlinearity), frequency (Lanczos), steady and transient heat, coupled temperature–displacement, explicit dynamics, LBM flow | Nonlinear shells and beams, plasticity in implicit steps, arc-length, buckling (M15); implicit, harmonic, random and spectrum dynamics (M16) |
+| Solution procedures | Linear static, nonlinear static (solids with geometric and material nonlinearity: hyperelasticity, J2 plasticity), frequency (Lanczos), steady and transient heat, coupled temperature–displacement, explicit dynamics, LBM flow | Nonlinear shells and beams, arc-length, buckling (M15); implicit, harmonic, random and spectrum dynamics (M16) |
 | Contact, friction, adhesion | Explicit planar rigid walls (frictionless); couplings, springs, dashpots | Implicit and explicit deformable contact, tie, friction laws, thermal contact, wear (M7); cohesive adhesion and debonding (M20) |
 | Materials | Isotropic and orthotropic elasticity, density, thermal, J2 plasticity (bilinear, table, Johnson–Cook), Johnson–Cook damage and erosion, compressible neo-Hookean hyperelasticity, Newtonian fluids | Elastomers beyond neo-Hookean (Mooney–Rivlin and the rest), viscoelasticity, viscoplasticity and creep, anisotropic and pressure-dependent plasticity, non-Newtonian viscosity, a cited material library and calibration (M17) |
 | Composites and anisotropy | Orthotropic constants | Orientations, layups, ply results, failure criteria, homogenisation (M18) |