“…Several examples of this kind can be found in the literature. For instance, we address the reader to the works [1,3,4,5,6,11,12,16,18,20,22,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,37,40], just to name a few. In some of these contributions, the dissipation is not mechanical, but only thermal through a heat equation of Fourier type.…”