%0 Journal Article %T Uniform Decay of Solutions for a Nonlinear Viscoelastic Wave Equation with Boundary Dissipation %A Shun-Tang Wu %A Hsueh-Fang Chen %J Journal of Function Spaces and Applications %D 2012 %I Hindawi Publishing Corporation %R 10.1155/2012/421847 %X We consider a nonlinear viscoelastic wave equation , with nonlinear boundary damping in a bounded domain . Under appropriate assumptions imposed on 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. %U http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jfsa/2012/421847/