PageHeader : Funkcialaj Ekvacioj, 40 (1997) 255-270 Title : Global Existence and Decay Properties of Solutions for Some Title : Mildly Degenerate Nonlinear Dissipative Kirchhoff Strings AuthorInfo : By AuthorInfo : Kosuke ONO AuthorInfo : (Tokushima University, Japan) section : Introduction section : 1. Local Existence section : 2. Global existence and decay properties section : 3. A final remark section : References