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# Spectral analysis and stabilization of a chain of serially connected Euler-Bernoulli beams and strings

• We consider $N$ Euler-Bernoulli beams and $N$ strings alternatively connected to one another and forming a particular network which is a chain beginning with a string. We study two stabilization problems on the same network and the spectrum of the corresponding conservative system: the characteristic equation as well as its asymptotic behavior are given. We prove that the energy of the solution of the first dissipative system tends to zero when the time tends to infinity under some irrationality assumptions on the length of the strings and beams. On another hand we prove a polynomial decay result of the energy of the second system, independently of the length of the strings and beams, for all regular initial data. Our technique is based on a frequency domain method and combines a contradiction argument with the multiplier technique to carry out a special analysis for the resolvent.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35L05, 35M10, 35R02; Secondary: 47A10, 93D15, 93D20.

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