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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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The annual Bruce Anderson Golf Tournament returned to Schneider’s Riverside Golf Course, just outside Hill Air Force Base, on July 15, bringing together folks from Hill Engineering and the community for a day of friendly competition and remembrance. Held each year in honor of the late Bruce Anderson, a former member of the Hill Engineering…
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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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Welcome to our Website Spotlight Series, where we’re highlighting key pages and resources available on the Hill Engineering website. In this edition, we’re featuring Rapid Forge Design® (RFD)—an innovative software solution that helps manufacturers streamline the closed-die forging design process. Rapid Forge Design automates many of the time-consuming steps involved in creating forging die designs.…
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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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When discussing residual stress measurements, few names are as influential as Mike Prime. A recognized expert in the behavior of metals under extreme conditions, Mike has made significant contributions to engineering, manufacturing, and materials science throughout his career. After attending UC Berkeley where he studied under one of the leaders in the residual stress community,…
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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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Early summer is an important time of year for senior engineering undergraduate students at UC Davis. This is usually when the College of Engineering holds the Engineering Design Showcase, an event where student groups from all eight departments present their capstone project in which they designed and prototyped a product, device, process, or software system.…
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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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3D printing, or additive manufacturing, has come a long way, evolving from a method only useful for creating functional and aesthetic prototypes to something that is being used more and more for industrial production. It has advantages over more traditional methods of construction in that complex shapes and geometries such as hollow parts or parts…
