Glass experts at Read Consulting provide services as window experts. Read Consulting offers a wide spectrum of window testing and evaluation. Included are glass failure analysis, evaluation of window damage and window scratching, window performance (light transmission testing of low-E windows), problems with laminated glass, temper level of tempered and heat-strengthened glass, nickel sulfide induced […]
WIndow Defect Analysis
Glass failure analysis expert witness has analyzed numerous cases of window damage. Often a metal blade is used by the window cleaners. In many cases the window damage is found on new construction. GANA has specific window cleaniong instructions that forbid the use of metal blades. The concern […]
Shaping Flat Glass
Glass expert describes the condition of the edges of windows, mirrors and other flat glass pieces. Almost all flat glass pieces are shaped from larger pieces using glass scribe and break techniques. Thus the edge of the part has two distinct sides. The photograph above is a microscopic picture of a the edge of an […]
Glass Expert Witness Discusses Window Failure
Glass failure analysis expert discusses interesting window failure, that of a piece of antique window glass. The window expert performed a failure analysis that determined the failure initiated at crush damage from the scribing operation, and it started as a bending crack. It then transformed into a “thermal crack”. That is the crack front was […]
GLass Failure Analysis Expert Discusses Wire Glass
Safety glass expert has examined numerous broken wire glass doors and windows. In the past wire glass has been mistaken to be safety glass; however, it is just as dangerous as standard annealed window glass. The wire is bonded between two pieces of semi-soft glass at high temperature. When this “sandwich” cools to room temperature, […]