verification: nonlinear oracle cases and the nonlinear solver's documentation

Theory cases for the nonlinear solver, each frozen as a fixture: uniaxial
stretch of a neo-Hookean block to twice its length (closed form), the
nonlinear patch test on a distorted hex8 mesh, a quarter turn of the same
mesh (objectivity: zero stress), the elastica of a hex20 cantilever at
P L²/(E I) = 1, 2, 5, 10 against Bisshopp–Drucker (0.2–0.5 %), and the
inflation of a thick neo-Hookean tube by a follower pressure against
Rivlin's closed form (0.08 % at the bore). A finite-strain Cook's membrane
is pending its transcribed reference. docs/fem.md describes the
formulation, the material point interface, the follower-pressure choice and
what nonlinear steps refuse; the literature, parity and roadmap pages
follow.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NmAttHhUZTokgPeEJia8sm
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"title": "A quarter turn strains and stresses nothing (objectivity)",
"kind": "theory",
"source": "Objectivity of the total Lagrangian formulation and of the hyperelastic stress: a rigid motion x = R X + c gives C = I and σ = 0 whatever the rotation (Bonet & Wood 2008, §3.4 and §5.2; T. Belytschko, W. K. Liu, B. Moran, Nonlinear Finite Elements for Continua and Structures, 2nd ed., Wiley 2014, §5.5)",
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"reason": "the inner nodes follow the rigid rotation exactly"
},
{
"id": "uy",
"quantity": "u_y at inner node 22: the rotation's",
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{
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"quantity": "u_z at inner node 22: the rotation's",
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{
"id": "von_mises",
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"measure": {
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