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Residual stress calculation

by Adrian DeWald

In a recent blog post we discussed the question: what is residual stress. As a follow-up, today we are addressing the topic of residual stress calculation. Once you understand the concept of residual stress and are ready to account for its effect on material performance it’s important to quantify the residual stress that is present in your material. Residual stress calculation can include a variety of different topics. Continue reading Residual stress calculation

Hill Engineering opens new office

by Adrian DeWald

Hill Engineering, LLC, answering strong demand for its aircraft structural integrity, fatigue analysis and design, and residual stress engineering services, has opened a satellite office in Layton, UT. This new office will allow Hill Engineering to better connect and collaborate with our customers and partners in the local area and the broader aerospace community. Continue reading Hill Engineering opens new office

New building anniversary

by Adrian DeWald

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 engineering services. Continue reading New building anniversary

Museum of Flight

by Camille Fowler

A couple of Hill Engineering employees visited the Museum of Flight at Boeing Field in Tukwila, Washington recently. The museum sees over 500,000 visitors a year, and is the largest private, non-profit air and space museum in the world. Continue reading Museum of Flight

SEM Annual Conference and Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics

by Adrian DeWald

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 while we share some recent work about residual stress measurement repeatability using the contour method. The abstract text is presented below. Continue reading SEM Annual Conference and Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics

What is Residual Stress?

by Adrian DeWald

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 topics, you’ve come to the right place. At Hill Engineering we love to talk about our work and we have a lot to share about residual stress. Continue reading What is Residual Stress?

Come see us at PS&S 2017

by Adrian DeWald

Hill Engineering will be presenting at the upcoming Propulsion Safety & Sustainment Conference (PS&S) in Phoenix, AZ on May 22nd through May 25th. We invite you to come see us. We will be sharing some recent work about experimental validation of process models for nickel engine disk design. Hill Engineering’s presentation will include a summary of residual stress measurements used to calibrate and validate process models for nickel engine disk applications. The abstract text is presented below. Continue reading Come see us at PS&S 2017

Aircraft Airworthiness & Sustainment 2017

by Adrian DeWald

Hill Engineering is presenting about residual stress engineering to support fleet management and life extensions of legacy fleets at the upcoming 2017 Aircraft Airworthiness & Sustainment Conference (AA&S) in Phoenix, AZ. The mission of this conference is to identify the challenges and the collaborative work being done within the aerospace community in improving the safety, airworthiness, availability and cost effectiveness of both our military and commercial aircraft fleets. Hill Engineering’s presentation will include a summary of recent work in airframe structures, demonstrating the use of residual stress engineering tools to support design and sustainment. The abstract text is presented below. Continue reading Aircraft Airworthiness & Sustainment 2017

Welcome Josh Hodges

by Adrian DeWald

We would like to welcome Josh Hodges to Hill Engineering. Josh has worked in the United States Air Force T-38 ASIP office (Hill Air Force Base) for the past 8+ years as a Structural Integrity Analyst. During his time in the T-38 ASIP office, Josh filled many roles including: developer of the Broad Application for Modeling Failure software and manager of the T-38 Damage Database, while also serving as a subject matter expert on the effects of residual stress on fracture and fatigue. Continue reading Welcome Josh Hodges

Fatigue Analysis

by Adrian DeWald

Fatigue is a material failure mechanism whereby repeated sub-critical loads nucleate and grow cracks that can ultimately lead to failure of a structure. Hill Engineering routinely performs fatigue analysis to quantify and predict fatigue performance of materials. State-of-the-art fatigue analysis is subdivided into categories, including durability (crack initiation) or damage tolerance (crack growth). The appropriate fatigue analysis for a given design depends on the application. Continue reading Fatigue Analysis