Uniform decay rates for nonlinear viscoelastic Marguerre-von Kármán equations (Q2518320)

The authors deal with the initial-boundary value problem \[ \begin{aligned} &{\mathbf u}''(x,t)-\text{Div}N(t)=0,\;w''(t)-\gamma\Delta w''(t)+\Delta^2 w(t)\\ &+\Delta^2 \int_0^\infty h'(s)w^t(s)ds-\text{div}[N(t)\nabla(\varTheta+w(t)]=0\;\text{in} \;\varOmega\times (0,\infty),\\ & N(t):=\mathcal{C}[\varepsilon\left({\mathbf u}(t)\right)+f\left(\nabla\left(\varTheta+w(t)\right)\right)- f(\nabla\varTheta)]\\ &+\int_0^\infty g'(s)\mathcal{C}[\varepsilon\left({\mathbf u^t}(s)\right)+f\left(\nabla\left(\varTheta+w^t(s)\right)\right)- f(\nabla\varTheta)]ds,\\ & \mathbf{u}=\mathbf{0},\;w=\partial_\nu w=0\;\text{on}\;\varGamma_0\times (0,\infty),\\ & N(t)\nu=\mathbf{0},\;\mathcal{B}_1\left(w(t)+\int_0^\infty h'(s)w^t(s)ds\right)=0\;\text{on}\;\varGamma_1\times (0,\infty),\\ & \mathcal{B}_2\left(w(t)+\int_0^\infty h'(s)w^t(s)ds\right)-\gamma\partial_\nu w''(t)=0 =0\;\text{on}\;\varGamma_1\times (0,\infty),\\ &{\mathbf u}(0+)={\mathbf u}^0,\;{\mathbf u}'(0+)={\mathbf u}^1,\;w(0+)=w^0,\;w'(0+)=w^1\;\text{in}\;\varOmega. \end{aligned} \] where \(\varOmega\) is a bounded domain of \(R^n\;(n\geq 1)\) with a smooth boundary \(\partial\varOmega,\;\gamma>0\) and \(g,\;h:[0,\infty)\to (0,\infty),\;g,\;h>0,\;g',\;h'<0,\;g'',\;h''\geq 0.\) They show that the energy functional associated with the system decays exponentially to zero as time tends to infinity.