“…In this technique, positions, instead of displacements, are used as the main variables to discretize solids and structures. It has been successfully used in several works with good results for unconstrained dynamic analyses (Coda et al, 2020;Siqueira and Coda, 2019;Coda and Paccola, 2014;Coda and Paccola, 2011;Coda et al, 2013). As far as the authors knowledge goes, for constrained cases the positional FEM has been used only for bilateral sliding connections of plane frames using the Newmark-β time integrator (Siqueira and Coda, 2016;Siqueira and Coda, 2017).…”