A ROBUSTNESS RESULT FOR A VONKARMAN PLATE

This paper considers the problem of the robustness of boundary feedbac k controls for a von Karman plate with respect to a small parameter ga mma. This parameter enters the problem through a term representing rot ational inertia for the plate and is assumed to be quite small (i.e. p roportional to the plate's thickness). This paper proves that the expo nential decay rates produced for the energy of the total system (with gamma 5 not-equal 0) are preserved as we pass with a limit on gamma -- > 0+.