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Failure Analysis Blog
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Read Consulting Failure Analysis Blog
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Failure Analysis Articles &
White Papers
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Glass Failure Analysis of Wine Bottle
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California Glass Failure Expert performs failure analysis of wine bottle revealing a
manufacturing defect. In this case the root cause is a piece of un-melted glass.
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Glass Failure Analysis of Beer Bottle
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California Glass Failure Expert performs analysis on an exploding beer bottle.
Failure analysis demonstrates that previous damage caused the delayed failure.
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Glass Failure Analysis
of Automobile Rear View Mirrors
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California Glass Failure Expert analyses failures of heated automobile rear view mirrors.
During the start of the scribe and break process, the scribe tool would crush
the glass. This crush initiated the thermal stress failure.
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Glass Failure Analysis of Tempered Glass Backboard
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California Glass Failure Expert Discusses surface stresses encountered with
tempered and heat strengthened glass. Root cause failure analysis of a tempered
glass basketball backboard was performed. Included are the fracture origin and a discussion of
the effect of surface stresses on tempered glass fracture.
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Metal Failure Analysis of Knodt Rod Surgical Implant
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California Materials Failure Expert discusses Metal Failure Analysis of a surgical
implant; Product liability study and Failure analysis of a 316 stainless steel
surgical implant. Includes scanning electron microscope (SEM) analysis of the
fatigue failure. Example of product defect analysis.
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Materials
Failure Analysis of Porcelain Ceramic
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California Ceramic and Porcelain Failure Expert performs a product defect analysis which includes failure analysis of a porcelain toilet water tank. Included
are porcelain ceramic failure analysis and evidence of prior leaking. Results indicate
that there was no product defect or manufacturing defect present.
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Reverse Engineering and Trade Secret Case
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California Intellectual Property and Patent Expert discusses an Intellectual property case that includes a discussion of a trade secrets and the measurement
techniques that are used to perform reverse engineering. Included are coordinate
measuring machine, materials surface analysis and various polymer analysis techniques.
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Food
Contaminant Analysis
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California Packaging Expert discusses a food packaging and product liability case which includes a root cause analysis of the source of steel filing contaminant
found in tomato sauce. Detection methods include Fourier Transform Infrared
Analysis, FTIR, to identify the polymer can liner and Energy dispersive X-ray
analysis, EDAX, of the steel filing to determine its composition.
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Glass Failure Analysis of
Broken Jar
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California Glass Failure Expert discusses a product liability case with a detailed
failure analysis of a broken jar. Includes a root cause determination and detection
of the failure origin. Includes analysis of damage to the steel lid of the jar.
This failure was the result of impact damage to the jar. There was no product defect present.
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Glass Failure Analysis of
Wine Bottle Fracture
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California Glass Failure Expert performs a root cause failure analysis of a
broken wine bottle. Included is an analysis of damage caused by the cork screw,
crack initiation and crack propagation.
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Glass Failure Analysis of Tempered Glass
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California Materials Failure Expert performs a Root Cause failure analysis of two tempered glass objects; a basketball backboard and a pickup truck rear window. Includes a discussion of Polarimeter surface stress measurements using a Strainoptics Grazing Angle Surface Polarimeter, GASP. Included is a detailed glass fracture analysis which includes determining the failure origin. This failure analysis study demonstrates how to analyze tempered glass.
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Plastic Failure Analysis of Chair
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California Plastic Failure Expert performs a failure analysis on a plastic
lawn chair. This paper discusses plastic fatigue, plastic weathering and plastic
overload failure.
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Glass Failure Analysis of a Sauce Bottle
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California Glass Failure Expert performs a failure analysis on a broken sauce bottle. This paper discusses analyzing a broken sauce bottle using Nomarski prism
photomicroscopy.
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Glass Failure Analysis on a tempered glass window
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California Glass Failure Expert performs a Glass Failure Analysis on a tempered glass window installed in a custom home. This paper discusses the use of a Strain Optics Grazing Angle Surface Polarimeter (GASP).
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