Author: joseph@howellstudios.com

Piping Design Services: Where Layout Ends and Stress Analysis Begins

Piping design settles size, material, route and deadweight support. Pipe stress analysis settles thermal growth, equipment loads and the ASME B31.3 flexibility question. Here is ...
Steam Piping Integrity Evaluation

Water Hammer Analysis: How a Fluid Transient Is Modeled and What It Does to Supports

Water hammer analysis has two halves: a hydraulic model of the pressure wave, and a structural model of what it does to the piping and ...

Delegated Design vs Deferred Submittal: What the Difference Means on a Project

Delegated design decides who engineers a component. A deferred submittal decides when its documents reach the building official. Here is how each one works. ...

Rochester Engineering Firms: How to Choose the Right One

A practical guide to Rochester engineering firms: the disciplines they cover, how to vet a licensed firm, what engineering work costs, and when to hire ...
Insulated process pipes on concrete sleeper supports with guides at an industrial pipe rack

Pipe Support Design and Analysis: A Practical Guide

Pipe support design decides where a piping system is held and what each support carries. ASME B31.1 spacing, the load cases that govern, and where ...
Structural steel frame of a building under construction, erected from wide-flange beams and columns

Structural Steel Design: The Complete Engineering Guide

Structural steel design sizes and connects steel members so a building carries every load safely. See the five-stage process, the AISC and ASCE codes, and ...
ASME Pressure Vessel FEA

Nozzle Load Analysis: A Practical Guide for Engineers

Nozzle load analysis confirms that piping forces and moments on pumps, vessels, and exchangers stay within code allowables. See the methods, standards, and FEA. ...
Effective plastic strain plot from a drop test simulation, showing where strain concentrates on impact

Drop Test Simulation: How FEA Predicts Impact Failure

Drop test simulation uses explicit dynamics FEA to predict how a product survives a fall, exposing stress and safety margin before you build a prototype. ...
Bolted and welded structural steel connection on an outdoor pipe rack, a typical location for fatigue cracks to start

Fatigue Analysis: How Engineers Predict and Prevent Failure

Fatigue analysis predicts how repeated loads crack metal over time. See the methods, codes, and S-N curve math engineers use to stop fatigue failure early. ...

Exceed Engineering or Xceed Engineering? FEA & Stress Analysis

Searching for Exceed Engineering? You likely mean Xceed Engineering, a licensed FEA, pipe stress, and structural engineering firm that cuts cost and risk. ...