IJPAM: Volume 21, No. 2 (2005)

ASYMPTOTIC BEHAVIOR OF
THE ENERGY TO A THERMO-VISCOELASTIC
MINDLIN-TIMOSHENKO PLATE WITH MEMORY

Maria Grazia Naso$^1$, Federico M. Vegni$^2$
$^{1,2}$Department of Mathematics
Faculty of Engineering
University of Brescia
Via Valotti 9, Brescia, 25133, ITALY
$^1$e-mail: naso@ing.unibs.it
$^2$e-mail: federico@ing.unibs.it


Abstract.A thermo-viscoelastic model of a Mindlin-Timoshenko plate is considered. Uniform energy estimates are then given and the existence of an absorbing set for the solution of the problem is found.

Received: March 15, 2005

AMS Subject Classification: 74H40 35Q72, 45K05, 74D05

Key Words and Phrases: Mindlin-Timoshenko plate, thermo-viscoelasticity, memory damping, absorbing sets

Source: International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics
ISSN: 1311-8080
Year: 2005
Volume: 21
Issue: 2