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Champagne Bottle Glass Failure Analysis

July 4, 2010 By Tom Read Leave a Comment

Glass failure expert performed a complete glass failure analysis on numerous champagne bottles that had failed in the riddling process. These bottles are used for riddling and they are made from a large amount of re-cycled glass. Several of these bottle failures initiated at a site that had a piece of unmelted cullet (Note: Cullet […]

Filed Under: Failure Analysis Tagged With: Bottle, Champagne Bottle, Glass, Unmelted Cullet

GLass Expert Discusses Glass Bottle Strength

March 25, 2010 By Tom Read 2 Comments

Glass failure analysis expert performed bottle strength tests to determine the strength of a cylindrical glass bottle. The bottle is approximately 0.85″ in diameter and 2.35″ tall. The glass thickness is approximately 0.040″ thick. It was hypothesized that a female could squeeze the bottle hard enough to crush it. Glass strength was measured by compressing […]

Filed Under: Failure Analysis Tagged With: Bottle, Bottle Strength, Cylindrical Glass Bottle, Glass

Glass Expert Performs a Wine Bottle Failure Analysis

March 12, 2010 By Tom Read Leave a Comment

California glass expert performs a failure analysis on a wine bottle failure. In this case the root cause of the failure was due to an impact on the top of the bottle finish. it is apparent that this bottle was hit on the top. This is shown by the photomicrograph.

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

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

Glass Failure Expert Witness Analyzes Failed Wine Bottle

November 10, 2009 By Tom Read Leave a Comment

Glass expert performed a root cause failure analysis of a broken wine bottle. The bottle had broken at the neck into three pieces (Upper left photograph). One piece still contained the cork with the cork screw still in place. In this case the cork screw was off center and had exited the cork when it […]

Filed Under: Failure Analysis Tagged With: Bottle, Glass Expert, Operator Error, Wine Bottle

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