Author: Robby Pires-Sturm
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Legacy Post: We Love Planes! (July 2016)
The dawn of the airplane changed the way we humans viewed the world. In a relatively short amount of time, travel across oceans was reduced from a month or more onboard a sea vessel to a few hours in the air. Getting from one side of the country to the other no longer meant spending…
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Legacy Post: International conference on residual stress (June 2016)
Hill Engineering is proud to deliver a keynote presentation at the upcoming 2016 International Conference on Residual Stress. The presentation delivered at ICRS2016 will include an overview of the opportunities and challenges related to the effect of residual stresses on the performance of aircraft structure. The abstract text is presented below.
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Welcome Robert Pilarczyk (June 2016)
We would like to welcome Robert (Bob) Pilarczyk to Hill Engineering. Bob has worked in the United States Air Force A-10 ASIP office (Hill Air Force Base) for the past 10+ years, most recently as the group leader of a team responsible for the structural integrity of the A-10 fleet. In this role Bob functioned…
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Residual Stress Measurement Inside A Welded Pipe (May 2016)
The inner diameter of pipes is a critical location for design and performance assessment. Corrosion, fatigue, and stress corrosion cracking often attack the pipe inner diameter, which can lead to leakage and possible failure of the system. Tensile residual stresses in welded pipe joints can have a significant impact on structural integrity and performance because…
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Legacy Post: What is Residual Stress? (May 2016)
What is residual stress? That’s a very common question when you work at Hill Engineering. Many of our customers, friends, colleagues, and family members like to ask us questions about residual stress including: What is residual stress? How do you measure it? How does residual stress affect material performance? If you have questions about these…