Stabilization of a viscoelastic Timoshenko beam fixed into a moving base

In this paper, we are concerned with a cantilevered Timoshenko beam. The beam is viscoelastic and subject to a translational displacement. Consequently, the Timoshenko system is complemented by an ordinary differential equation describing the dynamic of the base to which the beam is attached to. We establish a control force capable of driving the system to the equilibrium state with a certain speed depending on the decay rate of the relaxation function.