The energy decay rate for the modified Von Kármán system of thermoelastic plates: An improvement Original Research Article

We prove that the energy of solutions of the modified von Kármán system of a thermoelastic plate decays with the rate View the MathML source , as t → + ∞ where C and ω are positive constants which are independent of the solution. This improves an earlier result in which we claimed the decay rate to be of the order of expView the MathML source and provides a simpler and complete proof.