# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

June  2011, 1(2): 189-230. doi: 10.3934/mcrf.2011.1.189

## Exact controllability of a multilayer Rao-Nakra plate with free boundary conditions

 1 Department of Mathematics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, United States 2 Department of Mathematics, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO 80523, United States

Received  October 2010 Revised  April 2011 Published  June 2011

Exact controllability of a multilayer plate system with free boundary conditions are obtained by the method of Carleman estimates. The multilayer plate system is a natural multilayer generalization of a three-layer "sandwich plate'' system due to Rao and Nakra. In the multilayer version, $m$ shear deformable layers alternate with $m+1$ layers modeled under Kirchoff plate assumptions. The resulting system involves $m+1$ Lamé systems coupled with a scalar Kirchhoff plate equation. The controls are taken to be distributed in a neighborhood of the boundary. This paper is the sequel to [2] in which only clamped and hinged boundary conditions are considered.
Citation: Scott W. Hansen, Oleg Yu Imanuvilov. Exact controllability of a multilayer Rao-Nakra plate with free boundary conditions. Mathematical Control & Related Fields, 2011, 1 (2) : 189-230. doi: 10.3934/mcrf.2011.1.189
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