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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This is a snubbing unit under a drilling rig. The drilling rig includes the red platform you see up in the air. The snubbing unit is the next platform below. Snubbing units can control pipe by pushing the pipe down into a hole, or pulling it out. The advantage of a...
We designed this pallet conveyor to lift pallets up to 3000#. The elevator sits in front of an automated storage and retrieval system and is up to 90 feet tall. The scissors extend to pick up the pallet then retract as the pallet is lifted to the desired level. The...
I have been hanging at The South Texas Oilfield Expo. I had been walking around for a while taking in the sites on equipment. There are so many cool innovations pushing the industry forward. After wandering a bit, I was surprised to see something I was familiar with...
One of the things that helps with doing engineering analysis well is having thousands of hours of experience seeing problems. Sometimes failure can be hard to figure out. There can be multiple stresses in an application environment which must be accounted for....
