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A system of nonlinearly coupled Kirchhoff plates is considered. It is shown that by applying nonlinear issipation on the boundary, the energy of the system decays to zero at a uniform rate.
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Horn, M.A., Lasiecka, I. Nonlinear boundary stabilization of parallelly connected kirchoff plates. Dynamics and Control 6, 263–292 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02169489
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