“…where µ 0 is some positive constant and µ is a Borel measure on IR + . When ρ = 0 and A(x) = I, the problem of proving uniform decay rates for wave equations with boundary dissipations but without acoustic boundary conditions has attracted a lot of attention in recent years, see [1,2,7,10,21,28,29,30]. The problem (1.1) covers the case of a problem with memory type as studied in the references [1,2,7,28], when the measure µ is given by µ(s) = k(s)ds, where ds stands for Lebesgue measure and k is a nonnegative kernel.…”