The beam-string-beam structure possesses significant and extensive application value in engineering fields such as long-span spatial buildings and flexible connectors in aerospace engineering. This paper investigates the stability of a beam-string-beam transmission system, in which two undamped beams are coupled with a string internally equipped with Kelvin-Voigt (K-V) damping via transmission conditions. It is proved by frequency-domain analysis that the system fails to achieve exponential stability, and the optimal polynomial decay rate is established by combining the frequency-domain method and the multiplier method. The results show that the K-V damping existing only in the string can merely render the whole system polynomially stable, which provides a theoretical reference for the stability analysis of beam-string-beam structures.
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