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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.

Chicago High Rise Window Failures

November 4, 2011 By Tom Read Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Failure Analysis Tagged With: Expert Witness, Glass, High Rise Window, Nickel Sulfide

Northern California Failure Expert Witness Describes Tubing Failure

October 28, 2011 By Tom Read Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Failure Analysis Tagged With: Metal Fatigue, Steel, Tubing

Brass Plumbing Failure Analysis Stress Corrosion Cracking (SCC)

October 21, 2011 By Tom Read Leave a Comment

California failure analysis expert witness has analyzed numerous plumbing failures involving yellow brass (i.e. brass with more than 30% Zn in the alloy). The two major brass failure modes in yellow brass are dezincification and stress corrosion cracking. Above are two samples of stress corrosion cracking. Sress corrosion of yellow brass commonly involves the presence of ammonia along with the […]

Filed Under: Failure Analysis Tagged With: Brass, Cracking, Plumbing, Stress Corrosion

California Failure Analysis Expert Witness Examines Window Damage

October 15, 2011 By Tom Read Leave a Comment

Window cleaning is an important final step in finishing off construction of a building. This fact is sometimes ignored, and improper cleaning results in significant damage to the new windows. This in turn leads to a lawsuit. The glass association of North America (GANA) has published a bulleton to instruct as to the proper window cleaning […]

Filed Under: Failure Analysis Tagged With: Glass, Window, Window Cleaning, Window Damage

Failure Analysis of Glass Pot: Visions Cookware

October 5, 2011 By Tom Read Leave a Comment

A failure analysis  was performed on a broken 5 quart stove top glass pot. The origin was determined with optical microscopy, and the broken pot was assembled to show how cracking proceeded. The re-assembled pot is shown upside down in the upper left photograph. The failure originated at a preexisting “chip” on the interior at […]

Filed Under: Failure Analysis Tagged With: Cookware, Glass, Manufacturing Defect, Tempered Glass

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1435 Fulton Road Santa Rosa, CA
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