Author: atdewald
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Legacy Post: A Visit to Utah (April 2018)
Last year (2017), Hill Engineering opened a satellite office in Layton, UT with the goal of better connecting with our customers and partners in the local area. Mike and I recently made a trip out to the office to check in and to spend some time working with our excellent team there to better understand…
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Legacy Post: The Contour Method: Celebrating A Milestone in Residual Stress Measurement (Aug 2017)
This week we mark a major milestone in the field of residual stress measurement. The contour method, one of the most useful and advanced residual stress measurement techniques, was first successfully implemented on August 16th, 1999 by Mike Prime at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The most significant feature of the contour method is its ability…
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Legacy Post: Fatigue Testing Explained: How Engineers Evaluate Material Performance and Durability (Mar 2018)
Fatigue tests are an important part of our work at Hill Engineering. There are many reasons to perform fatigue tests including: 1) qualifying the performance of parts for production, 2) ranking and optimizing different production processes, 3) validating fatigue analysis results and associated models, 4) understanding the performance of parts already in service, and more.…
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Legacy Post: Fatigue Crack Growth Rate Data Fitting (Sep 2017)
LEGACY POST: Hill Engineering is presenting about material data and fitting processes for fatigue property assessment at the AFGROW Users Workshop 2017 in Layton, UT. The purpose of the workshop is to provide a forum for users to share ideas, demonstrate how AFGROW is being used for practical cases, and discuss future development. Hill Engineering’s…
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Legacy Post: ERS-toolbox® at AFGROW Users Workshop (Sep 2017)
Hill Engineering is presenting an overview of our ERS-toolbox® software at the upcoming AFGROW Users Workshop 2017 in Layton, UT. The purpose of the workshop is to provide a forum for users to share ideas, demonstrate how AFGROW is being used for practical cases, and discuss future development. Hill Engineering’s presentation will include an overview…
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Legacy Post: Prime Room Ribbon Cutting (Oct 2017)
Hill Engineering’s new facility in Rancho Cordova, CA features a combination of laboratory, research and development, and office space. We have proudly named the primary conference room in our new facility the Prime Room, a fitting tribute to a special Hill Engineering collaborator, the inventor of the contour method, and inspirational figure, Mike Prime. We…
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Legacy Post: Residual Stress in Additive Manufacturing (Feb 2018)
In previous blog posts we have discussed various issues related to residual stress in welding. Here, we’ll follow up with a more detailed look at residual stress in additive manufactured parts, which is a form of welding. Additive manufacturing processes, including powder and wire-fed E-beam and laser, produce residual stress as an undesired consequence. Residual…
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Legacy Post: Celebrating One Year At Our New Facility (June 2017)
On May 31, 2017, Hill Engineering celebrated our 1 year anniversary in our new facility in Rancho Cordova, CA. The new expanded facility has enabled us to work more effectively and efficiently while at the same time adding more capacity for our growing services in residual stress measurement, fatigue analysis and design, and residual stress…
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Legacy Post: Compressive Residual Stress (Nov 2017
We recently answered the question: What is residual stress? As a follow-up for all of our interested readers, today we are addressing the topic of compressive residual stress. Once you understand the concept of residual stress, which is stress that is locked in a material during manufacturing, it is important to distinguish between compressive residual…
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Legacy Post: SEM Annual Conference and Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics (June 2017)
Hill Engineering will be presenting at the upcoming Annual 2017 Conference and Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, which is organized by the Society of Experimental Mechanics (SEM). The conference will run from June 12, 2017 through June 15, 2017 and will be located in Indianapolis, IN. We invite you to come see us. We…