Glass failure analysis expert locates the origin of a failed wine bottle. Thye failure origin is at the top of the bottle on the inside rim. The origin is a crush spot on the inner rim. This was too high to be caused by a corkscrew. It is believed that the damage occurred […]
Glass Expert Performs Sauce Bottle Glass Failure Analysis
Glass expert peformed a bottle failure analysis on a broken bottle of steak sauce . Intitally it was stated that this was a new and unopened bottle; however, examination revealed that there was sauce on the bottle threads. In addition, the “band” below the plastic lid was not connected. From this it was concluded that […]
GLass Expert Analyzes Wine Bottle Failure
Glass expert analyzed several leaking wine bottles that eventually broke in half. All the bottle failures occured on the heal. Also, during failure analysis, it was discovered that all of the bottle failures were made in one cavity of a multi-cavity bow mold tool. Bottles from the other cavities did not have this problem. These […]
Glass Expert Analyzes Wine Bottle Defect
A glass expert was asked to examine poor quality bottles received by a winery. The issue was whether this product defect would significantly lower the strength of the bottle and would present a product liability problem. The photo on the upper left is a photograph of the manufacturing defect. It is a 4 inch horizontal […]
Glass Expert Analyses a Broken Bottle
Glass failure analysis expert witness performs a root cause failure analysis on a broken bottle. This bottle broke into pieces (lowerleft figure). A failure analysis determined that the failure origin was in the bottle neck under the plastic cap (lower right figure). The glass expert removed the cap and the the residual polish (top left figure). […]
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