Stability of piezoelectric beams with magnetic effects of fractional derivative type and with/without thermal effects

Abstract

In this paper, we first consider the well-posedness and asymptotic behavior of a onedimensional piezoelectric beam system with control boundary conditions of fractional derivative type, which represent magnetic effects on the system. By introducing two new equations to deal with control boundary conditions of fractional derivative type, we obtain a new equivalent system, so as to show the well-posedness of the system by using Lumer-Philips theorem. We then prove the lack of exponential stability by a spectral analysis, and obtain the polynomial stability of the system by using a result of Borichev and Tomilov (Math. Ann. 347 (2010), 455-478). To find a more stable system, we then consider the stability of the above system with additional thermal effects described by Fourier's law, and achieve the exponential stability for the new model by using the perturbed functional method.