“…The augmented Lagrangian technique was originally introduced in the field of constrained optimization (Bertsekas, 2003) and is used in a wide variety of engineering applications, such as contact/impact mechanics (Wiggers, 2002;Laursen, 2002), multibody dynamics (García de Jalón and Bayo, 1994), etc. With its most common implementation, the Uzawa method, which will be introduced in Section 2.2, establishes a means of exactly enforcing constraints using standard methods for solving Ordinary Differential Equation (ODE) systems.…”