General decay rate estimates for viscoelastic wave equation with Balakrishnan–Taylor damping

In this paper, we consider the viscoelastic wave equation with Balakrishnan–Taylor damping. This work is devoted to prove uniform decay rates of the energy without imposing any restrictive growth assumption on the damping term and weakening the usual assumptions on the relaxation function. Our estimate depends both on the behavior of the damping term near zero and on behavior of the relaxation function at infinity.