by Camille Fowler
This year has been filled to the brim with social events for Hill Engineering. From our company picnic to camping at Lake Tahoe to the ever popular “Board Games Night”, there was fun to be had by everyone. Continue reading Social Events 2019 recap
by Robert Pires
Cold hole expansion (Cx or cold expansion for short) of fastener holes is a technique that has been widely used in the aircraft industry to improve the fatigue performance of structural components. The cold hole expansion process introduces compressive residual stress near the vicinity of the hole that slows crack growth and can significantly improve fatigue performance. Continue reading Case Study: cold hole expansion process modeling
by Adrian DeWald
Hill Engineering recently published new research detailing our efforts to quantify uncertainty for slitting method residual stress measurements. This new approach provides a more accurate estimate of the measurement uncertainty associated with the slitting method, which is very helpful for probabilistic performance assessments. The paper is titled An Uncertainty Estimator for Slitting Method Residual Stress Measurements Including the Influence of Regularization and appears in Experimental Mechanics. The abstract text is available here along with a link to the publication. Continue reading New publication – An Uncertainty Estimator for Slitting Method Residual Stress Measurements Including the Influence of Regularization
