This paper is concerned with the existence of a global attractor for the nonlinear viscoelastic beam equation with past history memory
uttMathClass-bin+kΔ2uMathClass-bin−MathClass-op∫MathClass-bin−MathClass-rel∞tμ(tMathClass-bin−τ)Δ2u(τ)dτMathClass-bin+f(u)MathClass-bin+g(ut)MathClass-rel=hMathClass-punc,where g(ut) is a damping like | ut | rut and f(u) is a source term like | u | αu − | u | βu, by considering 0 ≤ β < α and r > 0. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.