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Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences Volume 2007, Article ID 12536, 13 pages doi:10.1155/2007/12536 Research Article Convergence of Solutions of Certain Fourth-Order Nonlinear Differential Equations B. S. Ogundare and G. E. Okecha Received 4 September 2006; Revised 14 December 2006; Accepted 29 March 2007 Recommended by Thomas P. Witelski We give sufficient criteria for the existence of convergence of solutions for a certain class of fourth-order nonlinear differential equations using Lyapunov’s second method. A com- plete Lyapunov function is employed in this work which makes the results to include and improve some existing results in literature. Copyright © 2007 B. S. Ogundare and G. E. Okecha. This is an open access article dis- tributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is prop- erly cited. 1. Introduction In this paper, we will consider the fourth-order differential equation (iv) ... x ˙ ¨ ˙ x + a + f (x,x )x +g (x ) + h(x ) = p (t), (1.1) where a 0, the functions f , g , h, p are continuous in the respective arguments displayed 2 2 ... 3 3 (iv) 4 4 x ˙ ¨ explicitly, x = dx/dt, x = d x/dt , = d x/dt , and x = d x/dt . The conditions on f , g , h, and p are such that the existence of solutions of (1.1) corresponding to any preas- signed initial solutions is guaranteed. Solutions of the equation of the form (1.1) have been investigated by several researchers on the account of boundedness,