GLOBAL EXISTENCE AND ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY FOR THE NONLINEAR AND GENERALIZED DAMPED EXTENSIBLE PLATE EQUATION

Abstract

The nonlinear and damped extensible plate (or beam) equation is considered [Formula: see text] where Ω is any bounded or unbounded open set of R n , α>0 and f, g are power like functions. The existence of global solutions is proved by means of the Fixed Point Theorem and continuity arguments. To this end we avoid handling the nonlinearity M(∫ Ω |∇u| 2 dx) in the a priori estimates of energy. Furthermore, uniform decay rates of the energy are also obtained by making use of the perturbed energy method for domains with finite measure.