  We prove by using an iteration argument some blow-up results for a semilinear
damped wave equation in generalized Einstein-de Sitter spacetime with a
time-dependent coefficient for the damping term and power nonlinearity. Then,
we conjecture an expression for the critical exponent due to the main blow-up
results, which is consistent with many special cases of the considered model
and provides a natural generalization of Strauss exponent. In the critical
case, we consider a non-autonomous and parameter-dependent Cauchy problem for a
linear ODE of second-order, whose explicit solutions are determined by means of
special functions' theory.
