Stability and instability results for Cauchy laminated Timoshenko-type systems with interfacial slip and a heat conduction of Gurtin–Pipkin’s law

The subject of the present paper is to study the stability of a class of laminated Timoshenko-type systems in the whole line R combined with a heat conduction given by Gurtin–Pipkin’s law and acting only on one equation of the laminated Timoshenko-type system. The main result of this paper shows that the thermoelastic dissipation generated by Gurtin–Pipkin’s law is strong enough to stabilize the system at least polynomially, even if only the second or the third equation of the laminated Timoshenko-type system is controlled and the two other ones are free. When only the first equation of the laminated Timoshenko-type system is controlled, we give a necessary and sufficient condition for the polynomial stability. The polynomial decays in the L 2 -norm of the solution, and its higher-order derivatives with respect to the space variable are specified in terms of the regularity of the initial data and some connections between the coefficients. An application to the particular case of Timoshenko-type systems is also given. The proofs are based on the energy method and Fourier analysis combined with some well-chosen weight functions.