In the present paper, we investigate the spatial behavior of transient and
steady-state solutions for the problem of bending applied to a linear
Mindlin-type plate model; the plate is supposed to be made of a material
characterized by rhombic isotropy, with the elasticity tensor satisfying the
strong ellipticity condition. First, using an appropriate family of measures,
we show that the transient solution vanishes at distances greater than
from the support of the given data on the time interval
,
where
is a characteristic material constant. For distances from the support less than
, we
obtain a spatial decay estimate of Saint-Venant type. Then, for a plate whose middle
section is modelled as a (bounded or semiinfinite) strip, a family of measures is used
to obtain an estimate describing the spatial behavior of the amplitude of
harmonic vibrations, provided that the frequency is lower than a critical
value.
Keywords
plates, rhombic systems, strong ellipticity, transient and
steady-state solutions