Over the years, Read Consulting glass failure analysis laboratory has performed numerous glass failure analyses on broken borosilicate glass coffee presses. The presses are made from 2 to 3mm thick annealed low expansion borosilicate glass. The low expansion glass is required to reduce thermal shock when hot liquid is poured into the cold glass container. […]

Read Consulting was engaged to determine the cause for the injury to a user of a sun tea jar. While lifting the sun tea jar by its handle, the jar fell out of the top and broke. When this occurred, the user tried to grasp the jar as it was falling and was injured by […]

Read Consulting was asked to analyze an accident in which an employee was lifting a Corrugated box containing 12 bottles of soda water from which a bottle fell through the bottom; it exploded, and caused an eye injury. The cardboard container was being lifted (as expected by the box manufacturer) with the box’s hand holes. […]

Read Consulting, a glass failure analysis laboratory, was hired to analyze defective glass bottles. These bottles arrived from the manufacturer with defects. Because only still wine is to be bottled, none of the defects discovered can cause cracking. Below are details of the two prevalent bottle defects from the glass bottle manufacturer. Blank Tear   […]