Electronic Journal of Differential Equations,
Vol. 1999(1999), No. 03, pp. 1-13.

Title: Uniform controllability for Kirchhoff and Mindlin-Timoshenko
 elastic systems 

Authors: Miguel Angel Moreles (CIMAT, Guanajuato, Mexico)
         
Abstract: 
The Mindlin-Timoshenko operator is a perturbation of the Kirchhoff operator
and it is well known that there exist solutions to the exact controllability 
problem for their associated systems. This article shows that the
solution of the controlled problem of the Mindlin-Timoshenko system
converges to that of Kirchhoff; that is, we show uniform controllability.

Submitted November 30, 1998. Published February 10, 1999.
Math Subject Classification: 93B05, 35L20, 34H05.
Key Words: Exact controllability; elastic plates; hyperbolic operators.