In this paper, we study the Lp (2 [less-than or equal to] p [less-than or equal to] + infinity ) convergence rates of the solutions to the Cauchy problem of the so-called p-system with nonlinear damping. Precisely, we show that the corresponding Cauchy problem admits a unique global solution (v(x, t), u(x, t)) and such a solution tends time-asymptotically to the corresponding nonlinear diffusion wave (v over-bar (x, t), u over-bar (x, t)) governed by the classical Darcy's law provided that the corresponding prescribed initial error function (W0(X), Z0(X)) lies in (H3 ×H2) ( [double-struc...