A bottling line for sparkling drinks was suffering from a high rate of bottle failures on the bottling line. In addition, several bottles failed on the shelf after bottling. Read Consulting was asked to perform a glass failure analysis to determine the cause of failure of three bottles that had failed “on the shelf”. Two […]
Steel Tank Failure: Metal Failure Analysis of a Collapsed Bolted Steel Holding Tank
Read Consulting was contracted to perform a root cause failure analysis on a collapsed 40,000 gallon water holding tank. Metal corrosion is the root cause of the tank failure. The failure originated at the bottom of the tank on the West side. The initial failure resulted from corrosion on bolts holding the side of the […]
Glass Expert Performs Failure Analysis on Glass Blender Jar
The glass experts at Read Consulting in Santa Rosa California performed a glass failure analysis on a borosilicate glass blender jar that failed in a glass thermal shock test as a part of product qualification. The jar is operated with a stainless steel spoon inside. It is then subjected to thermal shock test by heating […]
Glass Experts Examine Interior Wall of Champagne Bottles
The gas in champagne and most other sparkling wines results from the addition of a small amount of sugar after fermentation has ended. After the sugar addition, bottle is capped. The sugar reacts with remnant yeast and converts to alcohol and carbon dioxide. Because the bottle is sealed, the CO2 gas enters the wine as […]
Tempered Glass Oven Door Thermal Shock Test Failures
Glass experts at Read Consulting performed a glass failure analysis on several fully tempered glass oven doors that failed in an unexpected manner during thermal shock testing. 100% of these doors failed the glass thermal shock test. The subject tempered glass doors were painted with a 20µ thick picture frame on one side (top left […]
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