This study is discuss the vibrational characteristics of a planar frame structure with internal viscous damping. Based on conceive of Clough and Penzien, the equation of the axial effect are included is the Timoshenko beam which had been the internal viscous damping is derived. Using the transfer matrix method and rotation of coordinate matrix, the natural frequencies are determined as well as their corresponding mode shapes. The dynamics characteristic was analyzed by distributed location, length and value of the internal viscous damping. The results shows the every parameter was affected by natural frequencies、mode shape and the decay of the transient response. According to the analyze the vibration characteristics by fixed boundaries, its can easily determine the optimal allocation of the locally distributed damping of the planar frame structures to reduce the natural frequencies and decay of the transient response.