A transmission problem for the Timoshenko system with one local Kelvin-Voigt damping and non-smooth coefficient at the interface

Abstract: In this paper, we study the indirect stability of Timoshenko system with local or global Kelvin-Voigt damping, under fully Dirichlet or mixed boundary conditions. Unlike the results of H. L. Zhao, K. S. Liu, and C. G. Zhang and of X. Tian and Q. Zhang, in this paper, we consider the Timoshenko system with only one locally or globally distributed Kelvin-Voigt damping. Indeed, we prove that the energy of the system decays polynomially and that the obtained decay rate is in some sense optimal. The method is based on the frequency domain approach combining with multiplier method.