  We consider a beam-string-beam transmission problem, where two structurally
damped or undamped beams are coupled with a frictionally damped string by
transmission conditions. We show that for this type of structure, the
dissipation produced by the frictional part is strong enough to produce
exponential decay of the solution no matter how small is its size: for the
exponential stability in the damped-damped-damped situation we use energy
method and in the undamped-damped-undamped situation we use a frequency domain
method from the semigroups theory, which combines a contradiction argument with
the multiplier technique to carry out a special analysis for the resolvent.
Additionally, we show that the solution first defined by the weak formulation,
in fact, has higher Sobolev space regularity.
