A transmission problem for Euler-Bernoulli beam with Kelvin-Voigt damping

Abstract

In this work we consider a transmission problem for the longitudinal displacement of a Euler-Bernoulli beam, where one small part of the beam is made of a viscoelastic material with Kelvin-Voigt constitutive relation. We use semigroup theory to prove existence and uniqueness of solutions. We apply a general results due to L. Gearhart [5] and J. Pruss [10] in the study of asymptotic behavior of solutions and prove that the semigroup associated to the system is exponentially stable. A numerical scheme is presented. © 2011 NSP.