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 […]
Glass Experts Examine Hotel Window Defect
The glass experts at Read Consulting performed a window defect analysis on defective windows at a hotel. The windows began to appear dirty, and no amount of cleaning could remove the “dirt”. When initially installed, the insulated glass (I.G.) windows appeared normal. However, over time they began to appear perpetually dirty. Using a microscope […]
California Window Expert Performs Tempered Glass Failure Analysis
California glass expert was asked to perform a glass failure analysis on a glass door that failed spontaneously, The failure analysis lab located the failure origin. The glass experts then examined the fracture surface at the origin, and they determined that the root cause of the failure was a nickel sulfide particle. The failure origin magnified 200X […]
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