On the decay rates for two Cauchy thermoelastic laminated Timoshenko problems of type III with interfacial slip

TL;DR

This paper investigates the decay rates of solutions for two types of laminated Timoshenko beam systems with interfacial slip under thermal effects, establishing polynomial stability and identifying conditions for stability based on a new stability number.

Contribution

It introduces a new stability number  and analyzes the decay behavior of solutions depending on the thermal effect's acting component.

Findings

Both systems are polynomially stable under certain thermal effects.

Decay rates depend on initial data regularity and wave speeds.

Stability is characterized by the new stability number .

Abstract

The subject of this paper is to study the decay of solutions for two systems of laminated Timoshenko beams with interfacial slip in the whole space R subject to a thermal effect of type III acting only on one component. When the thermal effect is acting via the second or third component of the laminated Timoshenko beam (rotation angle displacement or dynamic of the slip), we prove that both systems are polynomially stable and obtain stability estimates in the L2 -norm of solutions and their higher order derivatives with respect of the space variable. The decay rates, as well as the absence and presence of the regularity-loss type property, depend on the regularity of the initial data and the speeds of wave propagations. However, when the thermal effect is acting via the first comoponent (transversal displacement), we introduce a new stability number \c{hi} and prove that the stability of systems is equivalent to \c{hi} 6= 0. An application to a case of lower order coupling terms will be also given. To prove our results, we use the energy method in Fourier space combined with well chosen weight functions to build appropriate Lyapunov functionals.