Salim A. Messaoudi

In this paper, we consider a piezoelectric beam model with nonlinear source terms and investigate the interaction between a viscoelastic damping and a nonlinear frictional damping. Under general assumptions on the relaxation function and the nonlinear feedback, we establish explicit formulae for the energy decay rates of this system and prove that the energy decays at a rate dictated by the weaker damping. Our results substantially improve some earlier related results in the literature.

In this work, we consider a swelling porous system where the damping terms are on the boundary. We establish an explicit and general decay result, without imposing restrictive growth assumption near the origin on the damping terms. Our result allows a larger class of damping terms, and the usual exponential and polynomial decay estimates are only special cases. We also give some illustrative examples.