Stabilization of the Timoshenko beam by thermal effect (Q711445)

The Timoshenko theory of a beam is an improvement of Euler-Bernoulli theory. When the rotation inertia and the transverse shear are significant in the beam model one has to use rather the Timoshenko theory. The authors consider a linear system of Timoshenko type in a bounded interval. The damping occurs through a termal effect by coupling the system with a heat equation. For such a system of differential equations, the authors obtain the main result of the paper: an exponential decay of the solutions.