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 […]
Read Consulting Failure Analysis Blog
In addition, READ CONSULTING provides services to industry in the areas of failure analysis, process development and process improvement. Read Consulting is prepared to use its experience and expertise to analyze customers' specific problems.
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 […]
Chicago High Rise Window Failures
A Northern California failure analysis expert witness performs a glass failure analysis on broken tempered glass windows removed from a recently built Chicago Illinois high rise. Soon after construction windows in the high rise began to fail. Read Consulting which provides failure analysis services in Santa Rosa California was contracted to determine the cause of failure. A portion […]
Northern California Failure Expert Witness Describes Tubing Failure
An interesting failure of steel tubing was observed when 1 3/4″ diameter A513 Type 5 steel tubing was being bent in a tubing bender. In this case the tube was clamped into the bender in the wrong location. At this time the clamp bolt had made an indentation (nick) in the pipe surface. The pipe […]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 23
- 24
- 25
- 26
- 27
- …
- 52
- Next Page »