Problem of the Boundary Control of Oscillations of a Sample of a Layered Two-Phase Composite Material

Abstract

We consider the problem of the boundary control of one-dimensional oscillations of an effective (averaged) medium corresponding to a two-phase medium consisting of periodically alternating layers of elastic and viscoelastic materials with long-term memory or various viscoelastic materials with Kelvin–Voigt friction and long-term memory. The averaged model is described by a boundary value problem for an integrodifferential equation. It is shown that for this model, it is impossible to bring oscillations to a state of rest in finite time (in contrast to the equation of string oscillations) by a force acting at one end of the band. A hypothesis is formulated on the possibility of bringing the specified object to a state of rest with the help of force effects distributed along the entire length of the object.