We investigate the stability of the initial-boundary value problem for the quasilinear viscoelastic equation $$\displaylines{ |u_t|^{\rho}u_{tt}-\Delta u_{tt}-\Delta u+\int_0^tg(t-s)\Delta u(s)ds=0, \quad \text{in }\Omega\times(0,+\infty),\cr u=0,\quad \text{in }\partial\Omega\times(0,+\infty),\cr u(\cdot, 0)=u_0(x),\quad u_t(\cdot, 0)=u_1(x), \quad \text{in }\Omega, }$$ where \(\Omega\) is a bounded domain of \(\mathbb{R}^{n}\; (n\geq 1)\) with smooth boundary \(\partial\Omega\), \(\rho\) is a positive real number, and g(t) is the relaxation function. We present a general polynomial decay result under some weak conditions on g, which generalizes and improves the existing related results. Moreover, under the condition \(g'(t)\leq -\xi(t)g^{p}(t)\), we obtain uniform exponential and polynomial decay rates for \(1\leq p<2\), while in the previous literature only the case \(1\leq p<3/2\) was studied. Finally, under a general condition \(g'(t)\leq -H(g(t))\), we establish a fine decay estimate, which is stronger than the previous results.
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