Electronic Journal of Differential Equations, Vol. 2006(2006), No. 48, pp. 1-16. Title: $L^p$-resolvent estimates and time decay for generalized thermoelastic plate equations Authors: Robert Denk (Univ. of Konstanz, Germany) Reinhard Racke (Univ. of Konstanz, Germany) Abstract: We consider the Cauchy problem for a coupled system generalizing the thermoelastic plate equations. First we prove resolvent estimates for the stationary operator and conclude the analyticity of the associated semigroup in $L^p$-spaces, $1