Category: General Interest
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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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Back on campus for the UC Davis Engineering Design Showcase
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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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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A Brief Introduction to 3D Printing
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…
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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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Team Member Highlight: Celebrating 10 Years with Camille
The end of 2025 marked a special milestone for me – it was my tenth year of working at Hill Engineering! A lot has happened since then, so I’d like to share a little bit with you about how I got here. My story begins in 2014 while pursuing a double major in Aerospace Science…
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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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Milestone 10th Anniversary at Gold Canal Facility
Last week, we highlighted a legacy post celebrating our first anniversary at (what was our) new location in Rancho Cordova. Today, we’re updating that post for the milestone Tenth Anniversary on Gold Canal Drive! Originally, we moved into our current location due to an increased demand for office, laboratory, and storage space. For years, our…
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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…