Category: General Interest
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Legacy Post: Aircraft Airworthiness & Sustainment 2018 (Apr 2018)
This blog was originally posted on our old website in April 2018. Hill Engineering is presenting about residual stress evaluation in legacy aircraft cold expanded fastener holes at the upcoming 2018 Aircraft Airworthiness & Sustainment Conference (AA&S) in Jacksonville, FL. The mission of this conference is to identify the challenges and the collaborative work being…
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Legacy Post: AeroMat 2018: Residual stress production quality control (May 2018)
This is a legacy post featured on our old website in 2018. Hill Engineering is presenting about residual stress production quality control at the upcoming 2018 AeroMat Conference in Orlando, FL. The AeroMat Conference focuses on innovative aerospace materials, fabrication and manufacturing methods that improve performance, durability and sustainability of aerospace structures and engines with…
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Legacy Post: A Closer Look at Fracture Surfaces (May 2018)
We’ve previously talked about fracture surfaces created as a result of material fatigue. Through fatigue tests, we are able to create a typical loading cycle on a test specimen to see how the number and magnitude of cycles affects the growth of cracks. After the test, we can analyze the fracture surface to see how…
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Hill Engineering Achieves CMMC Level 2 Self-Assessment Compliance
Hill Engineering is proud to announce that we recently cleared the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Level 2 self-assessment, an important milestone in our ongoing commitment to maintaining strong cybersecurity practices and protecting sensitive information. Developed by the Department of Defense, the CMMC program is designed to ensure defense contractors properly safeguard sensitive, unclassified information.…
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Legacy Post: HE at Pipeline Pigging & Integrity Management Conference (Feb 2018)
Hill Engineering gave a presentation about fatigue analysis of pipelines at the 2018 Pipeline Pigging & Integrity Management (PPIM) Conference in Houston, TX. PPIM is the industry’s only forum devoted exclusively to pigging for maintenance and inspection, as well as pipeline integrity evaluation and repair. Hill Engineering’s presentation, titled “Is the Paris Fatigue Crack Growth…
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Legacy Post: Understanding Residual Stress: a brief definition (Mar 2018)
Residual stress definition – residual stress is defined as the stress that is present in a material in the absence of externally applied loading. Residual stresses often form during manufacturing and are typically an unintentional byproduct of a manufacturing process. As engineers we care about residual stresses because they affect material performance. Because they are…
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Hill Engineering shares hosting duties with RTX for short courses this Fall
Later this year, RTX and Hill Engineering will each be hosting small groups of engineers from the other’s organization to provide experiential training courses to give additional insight into the work each does and the impact on engineered products. We look forward to meeting with everyone in the coming months. Below are short descriptions of…
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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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Utah Office Hosts 2026 Bruce Anderson Golf Tournament
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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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.…