Spatial estimates for transient and steady-state solutions in transversely isotropic plates of Mindlin-type

This paper concerns with a state of bending for a linear transversely isotropic plate model based on the Mindlin assumption on the displacement. By using appropriate families of line-integral measures, we are able to establish results about the spatial behaviour of transient and steady-state solutions. All the results are obtained under relaxed hypotheses on the positive definiteness of the elasticity tensor