Pullback Dynamics of Non-autonomous Timoshenko Systems

This paper is concerned with the Timoshenko system, a recognized model for vibrations of thin prismatic beams. The corresponding autonomous system has been widely studied. However, there are only a few works dedicated to its non-autonomous counterpart. Here, we investigate the long-time dynamics of Timoshenko systems involving a nonlinear foundation and subjected to perturbations of time-dependent external forces. The main result establishes the existence of a pullback exponential attractor, which as a consequence, implies the existence of a minimal pullback attractor with finite fractal dimension. The upper-semicontinuity of attractors, as the non-autonomous forces tend to zero, is also studied.