Manufacturing Engineer and Safety Engineer advises, for factory safety, that if a crane is being used to lift objects over and into baths that contain harmful liquids such as acids, caustics and high temperature liquids. the event should be treated as a “lock out tag out” type of event. All personnel should be cleared from […]
Glass Failure Analysis of Swimming Pool Tiles
Glass failure analysis expert performs a failure analysis of cracked glass swimming pool tiles. The photo on the upper left is of one of the cracked tiles. This is a clear glass tile made from re-cycled glass. The failure analysis, photo on the upper right, shows that these tiles were cracking from the backside of […]
Glass Bottle Failure Analysis
Glass failure analysis expert performed a root cause failure analysis on a bottle failure. The cap on this bottle had not been removed. The failure analysis revealed a manufacturing defect on the bottle interior. On the upper left photo is a 30X photomicrograph of a portion of the origin on the fracture surface. The arrows […]
Glass Failure Analysis of Tramp Glass
As a part of a product liability case, a glass failure expert was asked to determine if a piece of “tramp glass” found by a consumer (Upper left photo) was put into the bottle after it was opened. There was a companion bottle from the same six pack that also had glass contamination(upper right photo). […]
Botle Manufacturing Defect
Glass failure analysis expert performs a root cause failure analysis on a bottle failure. In this case a manufacturing defect was causing numerous failures on a manufacturing line. The tops of these small bottles were coming off. The upper left photomicrograph is with the two halves of the bottle re-assembled. […]
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