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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Function Spaces and Applications Volume 2012, Article ID 421847, 17 pages doi:10.1155/2012/421847 Research Article Uniform Decay of Solutions for a Nonlinear Viscoelastic Wave Equation with Boundary Dissipation Shun-Tang Wu1 and Hsueh-Fang Chen2 1 General Education Center, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei 106, Taiwan 2 Department of Business Administration, Yu Da University, Miaoli 366, Taiwan Correspondence should be addressed to Shun-Tang Wu, stwu@.tw Received 27 June 2012; Accepted 11 August 2012 Academic Editor: Pankaj Jain Copyright q 2012 S.-T. Wu and H.-F. Chen. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. We consider a nonlinear viscoelastic wave equation u t − k Δut t g t − sdivax∇usds tt 0 0 bxut f u, with nonlinear boundary damping in a bounded domain Ω. Under appropriate assumptions imposed on g and with certain initial data, we establish the general decay rate of the solution energy which is not necessarily of exponential or polynomial type. This work generalizes and improves earlier results in the literature. 1. Introduction In this paper, we are concerned with the energy decay rate of the following viscoelastic prob- lem with nonlinear boundary dissipation: u t − k Δu t t g t − s div a x ∇u s ds b x u f u , in Ω × 0, ∞ , tt 0 t 0 u 0, on Γ × 0, ∞ ,