A New PE and COO for Meadows Analysis

Our engineering firm here at Meadows Analysis is celebrating Jayton Cagle’s recent accomplishment by achieving his PE from the Texas Board of Professional Engineers (TBPE)! He is also now serving as COO of Meadows Analysis. If you have had an opportunity...

What is a PE?

A PE is a designation by the state and a license by TBPE. The state of Texas recognizes the experience and qualification of a Professional Engineer through their testing and criteria. Our PE’s have responsibility for the engineering work we are retained for. The...

Passenger Loading Bridges

Almost every time you get on a plane, unless you fly private jets or puddle jumpers, you board the plane on a loading bridge. I imagine very few people think about the walkway and machinery that offers them such convenience. We think about it a lot, that is from a...

Frac Pump Analysis

We like looking at heavy machinery and large equipment at Meadows Analysis. A lot of the engineering analysis problems we complete are of this sort. We have spent quite a bit of time this fall analyzing frac pump stresses due to manufacturing and operations. The...

Analyzing Lifting Eyes

Stress concentrations are everywhere and often a misunderstood phenomena. When we are brought in to analyze any compromises to a structure or part, the failure mode is different than most people think. A lifting eye, for example, can fail in a few ways. Similar to an...

Goal Post Safety

A client came to me with some engineering issues. He had an idea, but was struggling with design of his goal post safety mechanism and he was sure that it was too heavy. We lightened it up, designed a good fix to the safety mechanism, and made it our own design to...