Precise energy decay rates for some viscoelastic and thermo-viscoelastic rods

Energy dissipation in systems with linear viscoelastic damping is examined. It is shown that in such viscoelastically damped systems the use of additional dissipation mechanisms (such as boundary velocity feedback or thermal coupling) may not improve the rate of energy decay. The situation where the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Inch, Scott E.
Other Authors: Mathematics
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/39978
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10192005-113322/