%0 Journal Article %T Blow-up result in a Cauchy problem for the nonlinear viscoelastic Petrovsky equation %A Erhan Pi£¿kin %J - %D 2015 %R 10.14419/ijams.v3i1.3835 %X In this paper, we consider a Cauchy problem for the nonlinear viscoelastic Petrovsky equation. We obtain the blow up of solutions by applying a lemma due to Zhou. %U https://www.sciencepubco.com/index.php/IJAMS/article/view/3835