Exponential stability of a geometric nonlinear beam with a nonlinear delay term in boundary feedbacks

This paper is concerned with the stabilization of a geometric nonlinear beam with a nonlinear delay term in boundary control. The well-posedness of the closed-loop system where a nonlinear damping and a nonlinear delay damping are applied at the boundary is examined using the Faedo-Galerkin approximation method. Constructing a novel energy-like function to handle the nonlinear delay, the explicit exponential decay rate of the closed-loop system is established with a generalized Gronwall-type integral inequality and the integral-type multiplier method.