i send you a "small" version of my script. step 1 took around 8 minutes to prepare the sample. the final calc. is unfortunately running for ca. 2 hours. i hope this is ok for testing ... what i see is, that for small increase or decrease of porosity, the pressure is ok (like in the beginning of the calc.): p: 0.0785083522065 /poro: 48.1453194129 p: 0.0861023388763 /poro: 48.1453043476 p: 0.0870515283585 /poro: 48.1452806796 p: 0.124337357905 /poro: 48.1452662981 p: 0.134103911243 /poro: 48.1452555768 p: 0.134944854374 /poro: 48.1452507787 p: 0.13938079395 /poro: 48.1452458346 p: 0.141438612959 /poro: 48.145242923 p: 0.152935808325 /poro: 48.1452409334 ... but when the grain structure collapses, pressure calculation does not work correctly anymore: p: 11.42792547 /poro: 48.1451353243 p: 11.4313053052 /poro: 48.1451358473 p: 11.4343726311 /poro: 48.1451363719 p: 11.4371363766 /poro: 48.1451368869 p: 11.4392032959 /poro: 48.1451373207 p: 11.4424940715 /poro: 48.145137852 p: 8.11778479291 /poro: 48.1448508288 p: 9.8711045028 /poro: 48.1447914659 p: 10.7528636056 /poro: 48.1450854371 p: 10.5477578602 /poro: 48.1447098899 p: 8.11642447213 /poro: 48.1465865647 p: 6.99041462318 /poro: 48.1486620985 p: 8.99533593814 /poro: 48.1506954255 p: 7.83218662093 /poro: 48.1531095185 p: 8.69203259997 /poro: 48.154684897 p: 11.6359525072 /poro: 48.1548101512 p: 12.2310464532 /poro: 48.1519503998 p: 11.8209039334 /poro: 48.1508466024 p: 10.41266522 /poro: 48.1496083854 p: 13.8113509815 /poro: 48.1501534546 p: 11.7659257219 /poro: 48.1449743123 p: 11.3078736187 /poro: 48.1416428342 p: 11.7379254629 /poro: 48.1358210037 p: 7.75968666335 /poro: 48.1314928616 p: 9.11740236569 /poro: 48.1293477162 p: 9.30441402016 /poro: 48.1290937942 p: 10.6806525624 /poro: 48.1307995448 p: 10.256471075 /poro: 48.1334583699 p: 11.1890787209 /poro: 48.1358109485 ... p: 27.3255613877 /poro: 48.1124053232 p: 18.8932169787 /poro: 48.0921313593 p: 25.0517632071 /poro: 48.0918358101 p: 30.6684972931 /poro: 48.0860760522 p: 24.5449112901 /poro: 48.0819263772 p: 22.9203772051 /poro: 48.081861069 p: 23.4897854262 /poro: 48.0809934653 p: 30.0214400989 /poro: 48.0765479153 p: 28.6346694789 /poro: 48.0705626027 p: 30.475391 /poro: 48.0628890719 p: 27.1475228671 /poro: 48.0583210558 p: 29.2405442094 /poro: 48.0497216434 p: 25.9130183935 /poro: 48.0443911735 p: 20.737201863 /poro: 48.0378116206 p: 27.6899778636 /poro: 48.035147687 p: 27.2237453694 /poro: 48.0277675295 p: 29.6125202476 /poro: 48.0245254687 p: 27.7152319951 /poro: 48.018681696 p: 27.2864857718 /poro: 48.0154804492 p: 24.0510331304 /poro: 48.0148798888 p: 23.9897576147 /poro: 48.0158389365 p: 23.9914264679 /poro: 48.0165658403 p: 26.6901780408 /poro: 48.0155119429 p: 24.9508433898 /poro: 48.0144790611 p: 28.3914458976 /poro: 48.0112270994 p: 26.2457685113 /poro: 48.0033967489 p: 28.4702987162 /poro: 47.9955400221 p: 30.7188956685 /poro: 47.9883818643 p: 28.8575853606 /poro: 47.9814830293 ... p: 106.320892489 /poro: 46.75595998 p: 106.306309536 /poro: 46.7559601475 p: 106.294913322 /poro: 46.7559601918 p: 106.285210065 /poro: 46.7559603014 p: 106.273826458 /poro: 46.7559605049 p: 106.263787039 /poro: 46.7559605891 p: 106.251639788 /poro: 46.7559606068 (end) so there is a porosity decrease around 1.35 %, but it is not reflected in increase of p. regards, c