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In this paper, we consider Carleman estimates for the damped fourth-order plate operators ∂ t t − ρ ∂ t Δ + Δ 2 in a bounded smooth domain with Robin boundary conditions. Because the appearance of such kind of structural damping, the speed of propagation for solutions to the plate equation is infinite and the corresponding properties of the solution similar to heat equations, and is significantly different from that of the usual plate equations without damping. As applications, we consider two types of inverse problems in determining source terms for the plate equation with structural damping. The time-dependent measurements can be restricted to an arbitrary small sub-domain or arbitrary sub-boundary, respectively. Under some assumptions on the regularity of the solutions and coefficients, we prove the global stability results for these inverse problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we consider a viscoelastic plate equation with a velocity-dependent material density and a logarithmic nonlinearity. Using the Faedo-Galaerkin approximations and the multiplier method, we establish the existence of the solutions of the problem and we prove an explicit and general decay rate result. These results extend and improve many results in the literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we consider the plate equation with both weak frictional damping and viscoelastic damping acting simultaneously and complementarily in the domain. An energy decay rate formula is obtained under nonrestrictive hypotheses on the relaxation function and the frictional damping term. Our results improve and generalize previous results existing in the literature. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]