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Glass Failure Analysis Of Bottle Defect

March 2, 2010 By Tom Read Leave a Comment

California Glass Expert Witness was assigned to determine the cause of failure of wine bottles at the manufacturing facility. During processing the bottles had a higher than normal failure rate. A root cause failure analysis was performed by the glass failure analysis expert witness. He inspected a large number of whole bottles and removed those […]

Filed Under: Failure Analysis Tagged With: Bottle, Bottle Defect, Glass, Photomicrograph

Manufacturing Defect on Tempered Glass Window

February 26, 2010 By Tom Read Leave a Comment

Glass failure analysis expert witness performed a root cause failure analysis on window defects found on a recently built custom home. The upper left photograph shows the defect from the building exterior. The window defect resembles a dust or dirt streak and was not detected until the post construction window cleaning. In all cases, the […]

Filed Under: Failure Analysis Tagged With: Manufacturing Defect, Tempered Glass, Window, Window Cleaning

Tempered Glass Expert Describes Two Tempered Glass Fracture Surfaces

February 17, 2010 By Tom Read Leave a Comment

Glass failure analysis expert witness compares two typical tempered glass fractures. The lower photomicrograph shows a typical thermally tempered glass fracture surface . This piece is from a fully tempered glass sheet. That is; this glass has a surface compression stress of 10,000 psi or more. In addition, the compressive layer on each face is […]

Filed Under: Failure Analysis Tagged With: Chemically Strengthened Glass, Fracture Surfaces, Glass, Tempered Glass

Product Liability, Chair Failure Analysis

February 11, 2010 By Tom Read Leave a Comment

Failure analysis expert witness examined a failed hospital chair. The chair failed during a breast X-ray examination. The chair had been altered 3 years prior to the failure, and the machine shop that had made the alterations was accused of causing the fatigue failure. Examination of the chair discovered hammer marks on a critical region […]

Filed Under: Failure Analysis Tagged With: Chair, Fatigue, Fracture, Product Liability

Failure Analysis of Wood Shipping Crate Failure

February 4, 2010 By Tom Read Leave a Comment

Failure analysis expert witness was asked to perform a root cause failure analysis of a wood shipping crate failure. It rolled over and caused a factory worker injury. The wooden crate in question was loaded with 3mm thick sheets of glass. This crate was designed such that there was a four-inch lengthwise gap in the […]

Filed Under: Failure Analysis Tagged With: ASTM D36097, Manufacturing Defect, Shipping Crate, Wood

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Thomas L. Read, PhD,
1435 Fulton Road Santa Rosa, CA
Phone: 707-494-5089
email: info@readconsulting.com

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