Abstract: We considered the finite time blow-up to  a strongly damped  wave equation with variable-exponent nonlinear term. With the help of concave method and appropriately selected  parameters, we gave a new  blow-up criterion  for this problem and estimated the upper and lower bounds on  the blow-up time. The results show that the blow-up criterion contains special  implications for any high initial energy, and  the problem has a finite  time blow-up solutions.

Key words: strongly damped, wave equation, variable-exponent nonlinear term, blow-up