California Failure Analysis Expert Witness performs a glass failure analysis on defective tempered glass windows installed in a public building. One of the construction defects was window scratching. Representative windows were removed and sent to the Read Consulting California failure analysis lab. This allowed a detailed investigation of the window defects. The failure analysis determined that […]
Glass Failure Analysis of Tempered Glass Oven Door
California failure analysis expert witness analyzes a failed tempered glass toaster oven door to determine the cause of failure. The glass door remained intact, and this allowed the failure analysis to be performed. The origin is found to be in the center of a “butterfly” shaped region. There is a crush point that is the […]
Discussion of Beer Bottle Defect
California failure analysis expert witness discusses bottle defects that can affect the bottle strength. In this case there are a string of bubbles in the glass that are mear the surface. There are cases where these bubbles have reached the surface and have opened. This will weaken the bottle by generating stress risers and thinning […]
California Glass Expert Discusses Bottle Failure Analysis
A California failure analysis expert has been testing the strength of beer bottles by causing them to fail from pressure overload. In all cases the origin always had a mirror region at the origin. The presence of the mirror region indicates that the crack initially grows slowly. Theoretically, the mist hackle indicates that the crack velocity has […]
Tempered Glass Failure: Nickel Sulfide Particle
California failure analysis expert examines glass door failure to determine the root cause of the failure. The subject tempered glass door failed spontaneously, and because the glass was verticle, the broken pane remained intact. Read Consulting failure analysis laboratory was able to obtain the origin and perform a root cause failure analysis. The attached 25X Nomarski photomicrograph […]
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