On the controllability of laminated beams with Venttsel-type boundary conditions

Abstract

This paper examines the boundary controllability of a Timoshenko laminated beam system subject to Venttsel-type boundary conditions. The study focuses on a novel configuration in which three controls are applied solely at the boundary of the beam. Controllability is established by deriving an appropriate observability inequality for the corresponding adjoint system, which is then employed within the framework of the duality method in the setup of the classical Hilbert uniqueness method (HUM) to achieve the control problem. The main contribution lies in the analysis of a system comprising three beams governed by dynamic Venttsel-type boundary conditions, as introduced by Venttsel in [Theory Probab. Appl., 4 (1959)].