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 / Failure Analysis / Glass Bottle Failure Analysis

Glass Bottle Failure Analysis

March 3, 2014 By Tom Read Leave a Comment

Larger Point Impact (1/8″ Dia.)
Fracture Surface at Origin
of 1/8″ at 40X
Small Point Impact (1/32″ Dia.)
Fracture Surface at Origin
of 1/32″ at 40X

Often bottles and other glass objects fail as a result of “point impact”. Given here are two examples of point impact failure origins discovered as a result of glass failure analysis performed at the Read Consulting Failure Analysis Lab. The origin is found by tracing the crack backwards on the fracture surface. Often there is a crushed glass region at the point of impact. This blog demonstrates two impact failures. Shown are the are both the impact point on the free surface and the origin as observed on the fracture surface as viewed at 40X using an optical microscope.  

Filed Under: Failure Analysis Tagged With: Bottle, Glass

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

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