Category: General Interest
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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…
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Legacy Post: Aircraft Airworthiness & Sustainment 2017 (May 2017)
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,…
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Legacy Post: Welcome Josh Hodges (Apr 2017)
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…
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Hill Engineering debuts new website
We’re proud to announce the launch of Hill Engineering’s newly redesigned website — built to provide a clearer, faster, and more intuitive experience for our customers and partners. Our new site reflects what we do best: innovative residual stress engineering grounded in precision and expertise. Visitors will now find our content better organized and easier…
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Legacy Post: Understanding Fatigue Analysis for Structural Durability (Apr 2017)
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…
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Legacy Post: Come See Us at AeroMat 2017 (Apr 2017)
Hill Engineering is presenting about advanced manufacturing methods and their effects on residual stress at the upcoming 2017 AeroMat Conference in Charleston, SC. The event is organized by ASM International and is hosted by Arconic. Hill Engineering’s presentation will include a summary of recent programs where we evaluated the residual stress from a variety of…
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New article in International Journal of Fatigue
Hill Engineering recently collaborated with the Worcester Polytechnic Institute Integrative Materials Design Center to publish an article in International Journal of Fatigue, titled Fatigue crack growth mechanisms in similar and dissimilar aluminum friction stir welds: Residual stress, microstructure, and microhardness effects. The results of this work can be used to inform design decisions to improve…