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Glass Expert Analyzes Wine Bottle Defect

February 16, 2009 By Tom Read Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Failure Analysis Tagged With: Bottle, Glass, Glass Expert

Failure Analysis Expert Performs Glass Failure Analysis

February 14, 2009 By Tom Read Leave a Comment

Glass expert performs a failure analysis on a failed tempered glass door. The spontaneous glass failure was analyzed to determine the cause of failure. This was one of several doors that failed spontaneously on a new high rise. Fortunately, the door did not fall apart; thus, the failure origin could be preserved. The upper left […]

Filed Under: Failure Analysis Tagged With: Glass, Glass Failure, NiS particle, Tempered Glass

Glass Failure Expert Looks at Tempered Glass Failure

January 30, 2009 By Tom Read Leave a Comment

Glass expert analyzed a broken tempered glass door. He was able to preserve the origin and perform a failure analysis. The spontaneous glass failure started in the center of the window and was caused by a nickel sulfide particle (NiS particle). This failure mechanism is well known and has been documented by others. In this […]

Filed Under: Failure Analysis Tagged With: Glass, Glass Door, Tempered Glass, Wallner Lines

Glass Expert Analyses a Broken Bottle

January 2, 2009 By Tom Read Leave a Comment

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). […]

Filed Under: Failure Analysis Tagged With: Bottle, Glass, Glass Expert

Glass Expert Performs Failure Analysis of Glass to Metal Seals

December 16, 2008 By Tom Read Leave a Comment

California failure analysis expert and manufacturing engineer was engaged to perform a root cause failure analysis of shallow cracking in the seal glass. These glass to metal seals were made by one manufacturer and then sent out to another processor to be plated. The photograph on the left shows two sight glasses. The body of […]

Filed Under: Failure Analysis Tagged With: Glass, Glass to Metal Seal, Metal

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