Overpressure (disambiguation)

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Overpressure is a pressure difference, relative to a normal pressure, in various circumstances:

  • In engineering, the pressure difference over the wall thickness of a pressure vessel
  • In geology, geologic overpressure, the pressure regime that is the primary cause of "oil gushers"
  • In military science, Overpressure or blast overpressure, the pressure caused by a shock wave over and above normal atmospheric pressure

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