Read Consulting

Materials Failure Analysis and Process Engineering

  • Home
  • About
  • Contact
FacebookTwitterLinkedinYouTubeRSS Feed

Home Featured

  • Experience
  • Failure Analysis
  • Processing
  • Laboratory
  • Blog
  • White Papers
You are here: Home / Archives for Failure Analysis

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.

Glass Failure Analysis Of Bottle Defect

March 2, 2010 By Tom Read Leave a Comment

California Glass Expert Witness was assigned to determine the cause of failure of wine bottles at the manufacturing facility. During processing the bottles had a higher than normal failure rate. A root cause failure analysis was performed by the glass failure analysis expert witness. He inspected a large number of whole bottles and removed those […]

Filed Under: Failure Analysis Tagged With: Bottle, Bottle Defect, Glass, Photomicrograph

Manufacturing Defect on Tempered Glass Window

February 26, 2010 By Tom Read Leave a Comment

Glass failure analysis expert witness performed a root cause failure analysis on window defects found on a recently built custom home. The upper left photograph shows the defect from the building exterior. The window defect resembles a dust or dirt streak and was not detected until the post construction window cleaning. In all cases, the […]

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

Tempered Glass Expert Describes Two Tempered Glass Fracture Surfaces

February 17, 2010 By Tom Read Leave a Comment

Glass failure analysis expert witness compares two typical tempered glass fractures. The lower photomicrograph shows a typical thermally tempered glass fracture surface . This piece is from a fully tempered glass sheet. That is; this glass has a surface compression stress of 10,000 psi or more. In addition, the compressive layer on each face is […]

Filed Under: Failure Analysis Tagged With: Chemically Strengthened Glass, Fracture Surfaces, Glass, Tempered Glass

Product Liability, Chair Failure Analysis

February 11, 2010 By Tom Read Leave a Comment

Failure analysis expert witness examined a failed hospital chair. The chair failed during a breast X-ray examination. The chair had been altered 3 years prior to the failure, and the machine shop that had made the alterations was accused of causing the fatigue failure. Examination of the chair discovered hammer marks on a critical region […]

Filed Under: Failure Analysis Tagged With: Chair, Fatigue, Fracture, Product Liability

Failure Analysis of Wood Shipping Crate Failure

February 4, 2010 By Tom Read Leave a Comment

Failure analysis expert witness was asked to perform a root cause failure analysis of a wood shipping crate failure. It rolled over and caused a factory worker injury. The wooden crate in question was loaded with 3mm thick sheets of glass. This crate was designed such that there was a four-inch lengthwise gap in the […]

Filed Under: Failure Analysis Tagged With: ASTM D36097, Manufacturing Defect, Shipping Crate, Wood

  • « Previous Page
  • 1
  • …
  • 36
  • 37
  • 38
  • 39
  • 40
  • …
  • 52
  • Next Page »

Read Consulting Failure Analysis

Thomas L. Read, PhD,
1435 Fulton Road Santa Rosa, CA
Phone: 707-494-5089
email: info@readconsulting.com

  • Home
  • About
  • Experience
  • Expertise
  • Laboratory
  • Failure Analysis
  • Blog
  • White Papers

Read Consulting Failure Analysis

Thomas L. Read, PhD,
1435 Fulton Road Santa Rosa, CA
Phone: 707-494-5089
email: info@readconsulting.com

Connect With Read Consulting

FacebookTwitterLinkedinYouTubeRSS Feed

Registered Professional Engineer

Thomas L. Read, PhD., CEO
Registered Professional Engineer
Certificate No. MF002174
State of California.

Copyright © 2025 Read Consulting · Materials Failure Analysis And Process Engineering