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Failure Analysis of Wood Shipping Crate Failure

February 4, 2010 By Tom Read Leave a Comment

Failure analysis expert witness was asked to perform a root cause failure analysis of a wood shipping crate failure. It rolled over and caused a factory worker injury. The wooden crate in question was loaded with 3mm thick sheets of glass. This crate was designed such that there was a four-inch lengthwise gap in the […]

Filed Under: Failure Analysis Tagged With: ASTM D36097, Manufacturing Defect, Shipping Crate, Wood

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 Failure Analysis of Tramp Glass

June 22, 2009 By Tom Read 2 Comments

As a part of a product liability case, a glass failure expert was asked to determine if a piece of “tramp glass” found by a consumer (Upper left photo) was put into the bottle after it was opened. There was a companion bottle from the same six pack that also had glass contamination(upper right photo). […]

Filed Under: Failure Analysis Tagged With: Glass, Manufacturing Defect, Tramp Glass

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

Manufacturing Defect Analysis: White Rust Corrosion

October 9, 2007 By Tom Read Leave a Comment

A new barn built with galvanized and painted steel demonstrated the type of defect shown in the photograph on the left. After less than one year verticle lines of white spots appearedon the painted surface. These spots were examined by a coating engineer to determine the root cause of the defect.       Associated […]

Filed Under: Failure Analysis Tagged With: Manufacturing Defect, Paint Coating Corrosion, White Rust

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