“…The main contribution of the present article is to complement the works aforementioned 37,38 in twofold: (i) by considering a nonlinear localized damping term (which seems to be new in the literature) and a beam term , (ii) introducing a new approach when dealing with uniform decay rate estimates associated to problem () using the observability inequality for the linear problem as well as the fact that the application associating the initial data to the unique solution to the linear problem …”