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Wine Bottle Failure Analysis

November 6, 2009 By Tom Read Leave a Comment

Glass Failure Analysis Expert Witness Performs Wine Bottle Failure Analysis. In this product liability case the user was injured as the cork was being extracted. The glass failure expert witness performed a glass failure analysis and determined that the bottle failure initiated at the very top of the bottle. Thus, the cork screw could not […]

Filed Under: Failure Analysis Tagged With: Bottle, Corking Damage, Expert Witness, Glass, Wine Bottle

Glass Failure Analysis Expert Examines Failed Champagne Bottle

October 14, 2009 By Tom Read Leave a Comment

Glass failure analysis expert performed a root cause failure analysis on a exploding champagne bottle. The user claimed that the bottle exploded when she was using her thumbs to remove the cork. Examination of the bottle revealed a horizontal crush point. This damage was severe and would not have survived the corking operation at the […]

Filed Under: Failure Analysis Tagged With: Bottle, Champagne Bottle, Glass, Liability Hoax

Glass Expert Discusses Potential Manufacturing Defect

August 4, 2009 By Tom Read Leave a Comment

 A manufacturing defect was claimed by a purchaser of a bottle of wine. The bottle defect claim was that there were three pieces of foreign material in the wine. The photograph above shows the food contamination. Two are pieces of glass that appear to match the top of the contaminated bottle. The third piece is […]

Filed Under: Failure Analysis Tagged With: Bottle, Liability Hoax, Manufacturing Defect, Wine Bottle

Glass Bottle Failure Analysis

July 19, 2009 By Tom Read Leave a Comment

Glass failure analysis expert performed a root cause failure analysis on a bottle failure. The cap on this bottle had not been removed. The failure analysis revealed a manufacturing defect on the bottle interior. On the upper left photo is a 30X photomicrograph of a portion of the origin on the fracture surface. The arrows […]

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

Botle Manufacturing Defect

June 7, 2009 By Tom Read Leave a Comment

          Glass failure analysis expert performs a root cause failure analysis on a bottle failure. In this case a manufacturing defect was causing numerous failures on a manufacturing line. The tops of these small bottles were coming off. The upper left photomicrograph is with the two halves of the bottle re-assembled. […]

Filed Under: Failure Analysis Tagged With: Bottle, Expert Witness, Manufacturing Defect

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