Feedback stabilization of a coupled string-beam system

Abstract. We consider a stabilization problem for a coupled string-beam system. We prove some decay results of the energy of the system. The method used is based on the methodology introduced in Ammari and Tucsnak [2] where the exponential and weak stability for the closed loop problem is reduced to a boundedness property of the transfer function of the associated open loop system. Morever, we prove, for the same model but with two control functions, independently of the length of the beam that the energy decay with a polynomial rate for all regular initial data. The method used, in this case, is based on a frequency domain method and combine a contradiction argument with the multiplier technique to carry out a special analysis for the resolvent.