Invariance of decay rate with respect to boundary conditions in thermoelastic Timoshenko systems (Q322156)

The authors consider the problem \[ \begin{cases} \rho _{1}\varphi _{tt}-k(\varphi _{x}+\psi )_{x}+m\theta _{x}=0,\;\text{ in } (0,l)\times \mathbb{R}^{+}, \\ \rho _{2}\psi _{tt}-b\psi _{xx}+k(\varphi _{x}+\psi )-m\theta =0,\;\text{ in }(0,l)\times \mathbb{R}^{+}, \\ \rho _{3}\theta _{t}-c\theta _{xx}+m(\varphi _{xt}+\psi _{t})=0,\;\text{ in }(0,l)\times \mathbb{R}^{+},\end{cases} \] with initial conditions and either the full Dirichlet or mixed Dirichlet-Neumann boundary conditions. They proved that {\parindent=0.7cm \begin{itemize}\item[--] the system is exponentially stable in case of equal wave speeds and \item[--] the system is polynomially stable independently of the boundary conditions in case of nonequal wave speeds. \end{itemize}} These results unify, improve and complement previous results in the literature.