Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 April 2017
In the present article, we show that there exists a critical number that stabilizes the Reissner–Mindlin–Timoshenko system with frictional dissipation acting on rotation angles. We identify two speed characteristics v12:=K/ρ1 and v22:=D/ρ2, and we show that the system is exponentially stable if and only if