Analyticity and Dynamic Behavior of a Damped Three-Layer Sandwich Beam

Using the Riesz basis approach, we study a sandwich beam that is composed of an outer stiff layer and a compliant middle layer. The dynamic behavior and analyticity of the system are obtained based on a detailed spectral analysis and Riesz basis generation. As a consequence, the analyticity of the solution and the exponential stability of the system are concluded. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Program for New Century Excellent Talents in the Universities of China and by the National Research Foundation of South Africa.