“…A partitioned subdomain interacts with its adjacent subdomains through the interface forces and moments or Lagrange multipliers. The treatment of Lagrange multiplier-connected components of a mechanical system has been addressed by many authors, particularly in multibody dynamics [18,19,20], parallel computation [21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32], multistep integration [33,34], contact problems [35,36] and multiphysics simulation [37,38,16,39].…”