20th  November 2010
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Resistant materials at GCSE covers the knowledge of the various woods you might have used in the last three or four years, the metals commonly used for manufacturing commercial products ~ (perhaps several of your own projects too) ~ and a variety of common plastics.  
               
Modern products use materials that are constantly being altered either to make  the manufacturing more cost-effective or to make the products more durable.  Manufacturing processes are therefore constantly being improved but your studies should give you a basic understanding of processes such as injection moulding, casting, welding and brazing and the reasons why one process is more suited to a product than another.
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very good foundation for a good grade in the exam.  Checking out this site, some of the web links given here and some you find yourself should add a good additional amount of material to topics your teachers will cover.  Use time sensibly & study before it gets too close to the exam to be of real value.
Tools, marking out procedures and a knowledge of the design processes, marketing strategies and presentation techniques should round off your studies and give you a  
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Don’t forget the revision check-list section
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Materials     Sustainable materials    Abrasives      Types–and uses of abrasives   Drilling   Joints
Processes      Mechanical properties    Industrial processes    Mechanisms     Environment    Design
Basic electronics   Tools & Equipment     Cutting action – planes    Composites    Workshop Tools     Marking out tools  Cutting metals  Heat treatment-definitions-metals   Electrical safety         Safety 2
Risk Assessment  Metals,  Plastics ~ (synthetic polymers),   Wood Task,   Plastics Quiz Quizzes  >> KS3 Blockbusters    KS4 Blockbusters   Mechanical Engineering - Block busters
Manufactured boards    ‘Plastics’  History      Natural & Synthetic polymers     Polymer quizzes
(you  must know names of several suitable types (polymers) that can be quoted in your work)
                               
Crosswords    Res. Mats.  Revision site    BBC Bitesize     Lifecycle Analysis    Joining wood  
 Joining metals   Join Plastics  (2)  Welding  Brazing  (2)  (3)   Knock-Down Fittings    
Mechanical fittings     Protective Finishes    Paint-preparation  Lacquers   (2)   Tin / Chrome finishes
Enamelling   How to ’Enamel’  (2)  Plastic Coating   Varnishes   Polishes   (2)    Waxes, Oils & others   Making a Thread    Screw Threads  (2)   Injection moulding  (2)   Extrusion & Plastics    Moulding
Compression moulding    Vacuum forming & product examples    Foam moulding (2)    Blow moulding (2)  Rotational moulding   SMART  (SMART-2)  SMA      GRP  Health & Safety Fact sheets  
 GRP moulding    Die Casting Process  Bronze    Lost wax   Sand casting  ( & Step-by-step )  
Free software (flow-diagrams)  Die casting   Foundry    Fabrication   Wasting   International standards   Forming processes - metals    Quality Control    Quality assurance    QC v QA   British Standards  (ISO)   FAQ    Manufacturing Production     Batch Production   Production scales    Prototype Production  One-Off    Continuous Production lines     Mass Production    Modern Mass Production   Planning What is annealing  History of metal forming   Annealing Steel   Annealing + Details   
Normalising + Age Hardening   Flow Charts Animated advanced mechanisms     Mechanisms-Levers, Linkages, Pulleys Formulae   Levers  ( More levers)  (&more)    Gears   Velocity ratio   Cams   (Cams 2)    Linkage software (free)    Linkages   Linkages Lists  (2)  Pulleys      Bell Cranks     Crank-slider     Automata   (2)  (3)  (4)    Mechanisms    More Mechanism theory     Drawing Conventions
 Tolerance–introduction   Negative effects of Modern Technology - Review    Materials Properties
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