Bartlett Engineering LLC

03/14/2024

Pies + Engineering = A match made in heaven! 🍰🔧 Bartlett Engineering didn't just help Hubig's Pies, we elevated it to a whole new level with our Pi innovation. Craving a slice of genius? Visit their website below to experience the pi-fect pies!

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https://hubigs.com/

03/14/2024

We happen to know some metallurgists and CAD designers.. 😎

Happy Pi(e) day!
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Did you know?
The devastating fire of July 27th, 2012, damaged or destroyed every piece of equipment in our historic bakery.
Antique machines were carefully removed from the rubble, cleaned, refurbished, and stored in anticipation of Hubig's return.
Our 1920's pie forming cutting head was damaged beyond repair. A replacement was not available....And so the journey began
Pies from the last batch were frozen and stored.
The stored pies and ruined head were examined by engineers, metallurgists, and CAD designers with the singular mission to reverse engineer the antique cutting head....Fast forward 10 years
Success!
The replica cutting head resembles the destroyed one in every possible way ~ Producing a pie identical to the traditional Hubig's Pie with one exception. Since our re-opening in 2022 we crimp the long edge with "HUBIG'S π".

Now you know.

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Image below (bottom to top): uncooked pie, cooked but uniced pie, cooked and iced pie.

03/05/2024

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Our Expert Metallurgists and Mechanical Engineers perform Root Cause Failure Analysis and Forensic Evaluations of Engines and Industrial Equipment supported by Photogrammetry, FEAs and 3D Modeling for Accident Reconstruction. We design custom Static Mixers, ASME Process Equipment and Mechanized Pres...

10/30/2019

Another example of a 3D model generated using only photographs!

07/17/2019

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07/17/2019

Have you ever heard of making a 3D picture with a camera? I mean a picture where you can actually look at the back side of something. This video demonstrates a process of converting a bunch of photos into a 3D model. The object is a boat motor mounting bracket that fractured after the boat struck an under water pipeline. 124 photos were used to create something called a "point cloud." The point cloud contained 11.9 million points! From the point cloud we developed a 3D model that had the correct surface texture and color. This process is valuable for us in failure analysis because sometimes we need to cut up evidence into little pieces to do metallurgical testing, but this process allows us to still have our cake after we have eaten it. More videos with audio description to follow!

06/05/2019

How many cracks can you see in the face of the gear in the first photo? Sometimes cracks are difficult to see with just your eyes, so we use other methods to help us find the really tiny or the really tight cracks. The method shown in the third and fourth photos is called "dye penetrant" testing (a.k.a. "PT"). We coat the item with a colored penetrating oil (the penetrant) which soaks into any cracks. The surface is then wiped clean, and then we spray a developer on the surface. The developer resembles fine white Christmas tree snow with a solvent. The solvent loosens any of the penetrant that had soaked into a crack which makes it ooze to the surface and leave a tinted line in the "snow". Those tinted lines make it very easy to see crack-like "indications."
https://www.bartlett-engineering.com/gears

05/29/2019

Can you tell why this barge sank? (Hint: Notice it is in two pieces). Actually the hint is no hint at all. Bartlett Engineering often deals with "why did a barge sink?" But, whenever a barge sinks the salvage method is to saw it in half using a giant ship's anchor chain dragged back and forth between two floating salvage cranes. Because the barge probably sank due to a failure at its middle (right where it gets cut), you don't know what fun is until you try to separate barge "salvage damage" from "accident damage." But that's just another day at the 'ol mill for the forensic engineers at Bartlett Engineering.
https://www.bartlett-engineering.com/barges

05/22/2019

Did you know that we have a digital employee at Bartlett Engineering? We call him SolidWorks Sam, and you can find him starring in many of our 3D computer accident reconstructions. Sam is a 3D human CAD model, and he can stand in a dangerous place without us risking an OSHA fine. Poor Sam gets more abuse than Wile E. Coyote; but placing him in a model lets us depict how a person would "fit" and be affected by an accident.

05/15/2019

Ever wonder how we can verify the accuracy of a 3D digital model of an accident scene? Bartlett Engineering uses hand measurements and known dimensions to rebuild the accident scene as a 3D computer model, but sometimes there all still questions about whether our 3D model is correct. To check the model we use a virtual camera to take photos of the digital model, and if that virtual photograph is a clean overlay to the actual photo it proves that the model was correct.
The actual method can be pretty tedious because we have to guess at the camera's location and lens then compare the virtual photo to the actual photo. You can imagine that this rarely just happens correctly on the first try -- it often requires many (many, many...) attempts.
The result is well worth the effort though because after the digital model is verified we can revisit the virtual accident scene any time we want.
www.bartlett-engineering.com/accident-reconstruction.com

05/08/2019

Did you notice the man behind the gold Honda Pilot in the second photo? The photos below show how adjusting the contrast/brightness can reveal more information about an image. This adjustment helped reveal the location of the tires in order to assist with this automobile accident reconstruction (first photo). Photos are sometimes the only piece of evidence that we have to use when evaluating an accident. Since the accident scene is no longer available, photo manipulation techniques assist in our visual observations to extract information that now only exists in photos.

05/01/2019

Have you ever wanted to virtually revisit an accident scene after the fact? Bartlett Engineering has expertise in the reconstruction of accident scenes involving cars, cranes, airplanes, and ships. In the example below, a pilot's wing clipped the guy wire of a 500 foot tall tower. We showed what he could see at the instant of the accident by modeling the cockpit, using the aircraft's black box GPS data to recreate his path, and then placing a "camera" where the pilot's eyes would be.