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What does maximum operating pressure or working pressure mean with pressure sensors?

Michèle Beyer | Know-how
What does maximum operating pressure or working pressure mean with pressure sensors?

Our customers like to talk about a maximum operating pressure or working pressure. Unfortunately, these two terms are not defined for pressure sensors, which means that a definitive answer cannot be given. All we can assume is that, by maximum operating pressure or …

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Autofrettage in pressure sensors ensures zero-point stability

Eugen Gaßmann | Pressure
simulation FEM

In the manufacturing operation of pressure sensors, autofrettage denotes the process of active "overload" by subjecting the pressure sensor selectively once or several times to a pressure above the nominal pressure range . This process is applied, in order to achieve …

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How does a pressure sensor behave in the overload area, that means outside the measuring range?

Anna Gries | Pressure
illustration: overload

I have often been asked about the behaviour of a pressure sensor outside the specified measuring range, that means in the overload area and what will happen if the overload limit of a pressure sensor is exceeded. This fact is described as follows in the book …

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