Failure Expert Examines Plastic Pipe Failure A 90° CPVC Elbow connected to a hot water line failed after three years of service in a system operating at 130°F. The photograph at the right shows the failed elbow after it was removed. The crack is on the inside of the 90° angle. This photo […]
Metal Clad Window Failure
During a severe storm a three story house suffered severe water damage. This damage was not caused by flooding; it was caused by large amounts of water entering the top floor of the home as a result of openings to the outside. Read Consulting performed a failure analysis of the property and determine the root […]
Failure Analysis of Glass Pitcher
An injury occured to a woman when she poured cold liquid into a warm glass pitcher. The bottom of the pitcher separated from the handle and fell onto her foot and cut the top of her foot severly. The subject pitcher was lost; therefore, Read Consulting was asked to examine an exemplar from the same […]
Broken Jar
Materials Failure Analysis: A broken jam jar was examined to determine the cause of the failure. In this case, the top of the jar separated from the body as the user was trying to twist the metal lid off. The upper left photo is of the severed top of the jar. The lid did not […]
New Construction WIndow Glass Scratching
The window in the photograph above was damaged during post construction cleaning. Although glass is a hard material, dust, sand and other debris are just as hard and can damage glass. Therefore, one must be careful when cleaning glass. The damage seen in the window above is only visible in direct-oblique light; thus, it is […]
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