In this paper, we study a flexible Euler-Bernoulli beam clamped at one end and subjected to a force control in rotation and velocity rotation. We develop a finite element method, stable and convergent which preserves the property of time decay of energy in the continuous case. We prove firstly the existence and uniqueness of the weak solution. Then, we discretize the system in two steps: in the first step, a semi-discrete scheme is obtained for discretization in space and, in the second step, a fully-discrete scheme is obtained for discretization in time by the Crank-Nicolson scheme. At each step of the discretization, the a-priori error estimates are obtained.

This paper investigates the problem of exponential stability for a damped Euler-Bernoulli beam with variable coefficients clamped at one end and subjected to a force control in rotation and velocity rotation. We adopt the Riesz basis approach for show that the closed-loop system is a Riesz spectral system. Therefore, the exponential stability and the spectrumdetermined growth condition are obtained.