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by Robert Pires
If you’ve ever dreamed of embarking on a backcountry camping trip with some unique companions, then you’ll be inspired by Hill Engineering’s Josh Hodges and his three adventure buddies – Bowie, Tito, and Boomer.
Continue reading Meet Josh’s Adventure-Ready Llamas: Bowie, Tito, and Boomer
by Robert Pires
Hill Engineering is ringing in 2024 with a new expansion. By incorporating a neighboring suite into our office design, Hill Engineering now occupies our entire building, positioning us for greater achievements in the future.
Continue reading Hill Engineering Aims For The Horizon With Expansion
by Camille Fowler
Hill Engineering will be presenting at the 2024 SEM Annual Conference and Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics in Vancouver, WA, from June 3rd through June 6th. We invite you to come see us!
This conference focuses on all areas of research and applications pertaining to experimental mechanics and has evolved to encompass the latest technologies supporting optical methods; additive & advanced manufacturing; dynamic behavior of materials; biological systems; micro-and nano mechanics; fatigue and fracture; composite and multifunctional materials; residual stress; inverse problem methodologies; thermomechanics; and time dependent materials. Hill Engineering’s presentation will include a summary of recent work related to residual stress measurement using the hole drilling method. The abstract text is presented below.
Continue reading 2024 SEM Annual Conference and Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics by Camille Fowler
Over the years, Hill Engineering has had the opportunity to work with mechanical engineering undergraduate students at University of California, Davis, as part of their senior design capstone. The capstone pairs a group of students with a sponsor company in the industry to address a design challenge presented by the sponsor. For the 2022-23 school year, Hill Engineering submitted a project to the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department for an automated wire preparation device. This device would mainly be used by our engineers to cut “jumper wires” for a strain gage assembly, which are used for the many residual stress measurements we perform.
Continue reading Senior Design 2023: An automated wire preparation device by Camille Fowler
In a previous post, we highlighted the steps we took to develop a Quality System that is compliant with ISO. Since then, we have successfully completed three renewal audits and are currently accredited to ISO/IEC 17025:2017, the most recent revision of the standard. Part of our Quality System requirements includes the creation and maintenance of a quality control program for the various residual stress measurement techniques we perform in our laboratory. Consistently providing high quality results to our customers is something we pride ourselves in and the best way for us to assure that is through a quality control program.
Continue reading Inside Hill Engineering’s Quality Control Program by Camille Fowler
Nothing sums up summer quite like a good camping trip. A handful of Hill Engineering families made their way to the Stanislaus River and Caswell Memorial State Park for a weekend of nature, campfires, and s’mores.
by Camille Fowler
A new Aerospace Standard, AS7045 – Residual Stress Measurement and Classification, Metallic Structural Alloy Products and Finished Parts, was recently published by SAE International. Hill Engineering was actively involved in the development of the standard along with many of our collaborators in the aerospace industry. AS7045 offers tremendous potential to revolutionize the management of residual stress during metallic material procurement.
Continue reading AS7045 – Residual Stress Measurement and Classification, Metallic Structural Alloy Products and Finished Parts by Robert Pires
The anticipation had been building for months, and finally, the day arrived. Robby, Camille, and Ryan, members of the Hill Engineering team, embarked on a journey through time as they attended the Taylor Swift Eras Tour concert in Santa Clara, California.
by Robert Pires
Gather round readers!
We are very excited today because in this blog we cross an incredible milestone: our 200th post! That’s right. Since the inception of the Hill Engineering blog back in March 2016, we have published 200 times.
Let’s take a look back over the past 7 years of blogging bliss!
Continue reading The Big 200! – Celebrating a milestone blog post by Camille Fowler
There’s a new addition to the HE pet family that I’m excited to tell you about. Joining my family and I at home is Tau, the orange ticked tabby cat.
Continue reading HE Pet Spotlight: Tau