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Remark on the decay for damped string and beam equations. (English) Zbl 0611.35057
It is shown that the norms of the solutions to nonlinear weakly damped hyperbolic equations like $u''(t)+\alpha A^ 2u(t)+\delta u'(t)+M(| A^{1/2}u(t)|^ 2)Au(t)=0$ decay exponentially to zero when t tends to infinity.
The obtained decay rates are optimal - the same as for the linear equation with $$M\equiv const.$$
Some more precise estimates for strongly damped equations with the damping term of type Au’ will be proved in a forthcoming paper in Nonlinear Analysis (1987).

MSC:
 35L20 Initial-boundary value problems for second-order hyperbolic equations 35B40 Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs 35B05 Oscillation, zeros of solutions, mean value theorems, etc. in context of PDEs
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References:
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