Uniform rates of decay in anisotropic thermo-viscoelasticity (Q1383776)

The authors use the anisotropic inhomogeneous thermo-viscoelastic equations in order to prove that the first and the second order energy depend on the relaxation function as time tends to infinity. If the relaxation function decays exponentially to zero, then the first and the second order energy also decay exponentially; if the relaxation function decays polynomially to zero, then the energy also decays polynomially. That is, the rate of decay of the solution is defined by the kernel of the convolution.