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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 Expert Performs Sauce Bottle Glass Failure Analysis

April 26, 2009 By Tom Read Leave a Comment

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 […]

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

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