  The paper investigates a class of a semilinear wave equation with
time-dependent damping term ($-\frac{1}{{(1+t)}^{\beta}}\Delta u_t$) and a
nonlinearity $|u|^p$. We will show the influence of the the parameter $\beta$
in the blow-up results under some hypothesis on the initial data and the
exponent $p$ by using the test function method. We also study the local
existence in time of mild solution in the energy space $H^1(\mathbb{R}^n)\times
L^2(\mathbb{R}^n)$.
