Applied Mathematics and Optimization, Vol.84, No.3, 3025-3044, 2021
Asymptotic Stability of Energy for a Weak Viscoelastic Plate Equation with Complementary Frictional Damping
We are concerned with asymptotic stability of energy for plate equations with vanishing viscoelastic dampings and complementary frictional dampings, where the internal viscoelastic dampings are assumed to be time-dependent. In terms of the relaxation function theta(t) and the coefficient gamma(t) of viscoelastic term, we obtain the decay rates for the plate equations' energies. Since we do not need the viscoelastic damping coefficient to be bigger than a fixed positive number, which is required in previous investigations of the asymptotic stability of the plate equations' energies, our decay theorems extend and improve essentially the existing decay results for the plate equations in both viscoelastic damping case and mixed-type damping case.
Keywords:Asymptotic stability;Energy;Plate equation;Vanishing viscoelastic damping;Complementary frictional damping;Decay rates