Resistant materials at GCSE covers the knowledge of the various woods you might have used in the last 3 or 4 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.   

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

Materials     Sustainable materials    Abrasives      Types–and uses of abrasives   Drilling   Joints
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  ( Elec. Safety 2)   Metals,  Plastics ~ (synthetic polymers),   Woods,   
Manufactured boards    ‘Plastics’  History  
 (you  must know names of several suitable types (polymers) that can be quoted in your work)
              
Try these >  Resistant materials site - Quiz     and    Res. Mats.  Revision site       BBC Bitesize       
    Joining wood    Joining metals    Welding   Brazing    Joining Plastics      Knock-Down Fittings
Mechanical fittings     Protective Finishes    Paint-preparation   Lacquers   Tin / Chrome finishes
Enamelling   How to do ’Enamelling’   Plastic Coating   Varnishes   Polishes   Waxes, Oils & others   Making a Thread    Screw Threads  (2)   Injection moulding  (2)   Extrusion & Plastics    
Compression moulding    Vacuum forming & other processes     Blow moulding   Foam moulding (2)    Rotational moulding  Compression moulds (thermosets)  SMART   (SMART-2)  SMA
GRP moulding    Die Casting Process  Bronze    Lost wax   Sand casting  ( & Step-by-step )  
 Die casting     Foundry    Fabrication    
Forming processes - metals    Wasting   Quality Control    Quality assurance     
 Manufacturing Production     Batch Production   Production scales    Prototype Production     
 One-Off    Continuous Production lines     Mass Production    Modern Mass Production   Planning    
History of metal forming  Annealing + Details   Normalising + Age Hardening    Design-Idea Book
          
Levers  ( More levers)  (&more)     Gears   Velocity ratio   Cams   (Cams 2)    Linkages   Linkages (2)  Pulleys      Bell Cranks     Crank-slider      Automata     Mechanisms       More Mechanism theory
British Standards   International standards (ISO)   Drawing Conventions  Tolerances–intro graphs
         
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