We consider a linear thermoelastic plate system where the heat flux is given by Cattaneo's model. We show that the resulting system is exponentially stable if and only if the rotational inertia coefficient μ is positive. On the other hand, for μ = 0, we establish polynomial stability results giving optimal rates of decay for initial data in the domain of the infinitesimal generator of the thermoelastic semigroup.
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