Category: General Interest
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Legacy Post: SEM Annual Conference and Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics (June 2017)
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. We…
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Hill Engineering’s “Dinklebergs” Serve Up Fun and Victory
The lives of Hill Engineering team members may be all about residual stress, but when it’s time to relieve stress, we’re taking it to the courts. The pickleball courts, that is. Hill Engineering’s Teresa and Ryan have taken their teamwork beyond the office and onto the realm of America’s hottest new pass-time. Along with Ryan’s…
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Legacy Post: Lincoln Award (July 2017)
The Lincoln Award is named in honor of Dr. John W. (Jack) Lincoln, the U.S. Air Force’s first Technical Advisor for Aircraft Structural Integrity. An internationally recognized expert in structural integrity, fatigue analysis, and aviation safety, Dr. Lincoln is credited with developing the Aircraft Structural Integrity Program (ASIP) that is now institutionalized throughout the Air…
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Legacy Post: Residual Stress Calculation (July 2017)
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…
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Legacy Post: Hill Engineering opens Utah Office (Jun 2017)
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. Our…
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Hill Highlights: RD Pires releases book 2 in his epic saga “The Tides That Reign”
At Hill Engineering, our work is driven not just by technical rigor, but by the people behind it. While taking pride in delivering industry-leading solutions for residual stress measurement, we also believe in celebrating the passions that make our team unique! It just so happens to be my turn this time around! Last summer, I…
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Legacy Post: Museum of Flight visit (June 2017)
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. Who knew that air- and spacecraft could be so interesting! The museum has over 175 flying…
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Legacy Post: 2016 Highlights at Hill Engineering (Jan 2017)
2016 was an exciting year at Hill Engineering. We accomplished so much and we wanted to take a moment to recognize some of the highlights. Early in the year, we were in the middle of Hill Engineering’s largest ever facilities planning/construction project. We had just selected our new office location and needed to plan and…
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Legacy Post: Hill Engineering’s Internship Program (Aug 2016)
Every summer, Hill Engineering hires university students as interns; aiming to give them insight into industry jobs and provide them with the experience they’ll need to develop their careers post-graduation. We pride ourselves on involving interns in projects which utilize and further explore the concepts they have learned in school. In the past, we’ve had…
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Legacy Post: Come See Us at PS&S 2017 (May 2017)
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…