2026-08-08 • Mechanical Design
Why Rods Buckle in Curved Wellbores: A Practical Guide to Sideload Calculation
Why virtually any compressive load buckles a slender sucker rod, and what actually determines fatigue life next — a curvature-driven sideload walkthrough with a worked field example you can reproduce.
2026-06-05 • Reliability Methods
Weibull MLE vs Median-Rank Regression: Which to Use, and When Each Fails
When MLE beats median-rank regression for Weibull analysis and when it doesn't — a censoring-by-censoring comparison with a worked field example you can reproduce.