Asymptotic behavior to a von Kármán plate with boundary memory conditions (Q2567215): Difference between revisions

The asymptotic behavior of the solutions to a von Kármán system of plate equations with memory type boundary condition is considered. The boundary relaxation functions \(g_1,g_2\in C^1(0,\infty)\) are positive and nondecreasing. It is shown that the energy of a von Kármán plate decays exponentially to zero provided \(g_1\) and \(g_2\) decay exponentially to zero. When \(g_1\) and \(g_2\) decay polynomially, then the corresponding energy of the von Kármán plate also decays polynomially to zero with the same rate of decay. At first, the existence, regularity and uniqueness of strong solutions to the von Kármán system are established, then the uniform rate of exponential decay and the polynomial rate of decay are proven. The proof of the stability property of solutions to the von Kármán system for the Kirchhoff plate equations is based on the construction of a suitable functional \({\mathcal L}\) satisfying \[ {d\over dt}{\mathcal L}(t)\leq -c_1{\mathcal L}(t)+ c_2\exp(-\gamma t) \] or \[ {d\over dt}{\mathcal L}(t) \leq -c_1{\mathcal L}(t)^{1+1/\alpha}+ {c_2\over (1+ t)^{\alpha+1}} \] with positive constants \(c_1\), \(c_2\), \(\gamma\) and \(\alpha\).