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Our materials are designed to help teachers and students working on GCSE Design and Technology courses based on the specifications for OCR, AQA, WJEC and Edexcel 
D&T: Product  Design and D&T: Resistant Materials Technology courses.  

Our KS4 Design & Resistant Materials Technology software contains D&T notes, animations and hundreds of exercises, including design exercises, design analysis exercises and technology exercises.  The material is ideal for class teaching, for homework, cover-work and for individual learning.  The animations are particularly useful for interactive whiteboard teaching.

Contents: Design and Resistant Materials Technology

Design and Technology
  • Description of design and technology
  • Design and technology process
  • Stages in design and technology
  • Reasons for creating new designs
  • Factors to consider when designing products
  • Ergonomics
  • Designing for safety
  • Designing for customisation
  • Designing for a production method
  • Designing for assembly, disassembly and recycling
  • Designing for maintenance
  • Invention
  • Making changes to existing designs: design development
  • Specifications: specifying details of designs and product
  • Recording designs
  • Parts drawings and parts lists
  • Planning
  • Evaluation
  • Product analysis
  • Value analysis
  • Animation: notes and sketches
  • Animation: design development
  • Animation: isometric drawing
  • Animation: oblique drawing
  • Animation:1 point perspective drawing
  • Animation: 2 point perspective drawing
  • Animation: parts drawing & cutting lists
  • Rendering exercises
  • Design exercises
  • Design briefs and specifications
  • Problem solving exercises.
Design exercises
  • Furniture
  • Designs with wheels
  • Kitchen ware (design analysis exercises)
  • Tools (design analysis exercises)
  • Lamps
  • Toys
Research
  • Product analysis
  • Value analysis
  • Library search
  • Internet search
  • Experiments
  • Observation
  • Case study
  • Interviews
  • Survey
  • Role play
Quality
  • Quality in design and technology
  • Inspection
  • Quality control
  • Quality Assurance
  • Total Quality Management (TQM)
  • Quality exercises
Safety
  • Designer's safety responsibility
  • Risk assessment
  • Safety rules and defined procedures
  • Hazard warnings and instructions
  • Safe materials
  • Safe storage of materials
  • Tool safety
  • Safety features on tools
  • Safe working practices
  • Safe working area
  • Product safety
  • Workshop safety rules
  • Safety exercises
  • Risk assessment exercises
Resistant Materials
  • Classification of resistant materials
  • Components
  • Making metals/processing metal ores:
    • iron
    • basic oxygen steel making process
    • electric arc furnace
    • secondary steel making
    • formation of slabs, bloom and billets
    • hot rolling plate mills
    • hot rolling strip mills
    • hot rolling long products
    • cold rolling and drawing
    • coating
    • aluminium
    • aluminium alloys
    • copper
    • lead
    • zinc
    • tin
    • manganese
    • molybdenum
    • strontium
    • nickel
    • platinum
    • silver
    • cadmium
    • chromium
    • titanium
    • tungsten
    • vanadium
  • Recycling
  • Timber and manufactured boards (animation)
  • Trees as a renewable resource
  • Processing timber logs
  • Timber conversion
  • Manufactured boards
  • Plastic notes and animations
  • Thermoplastics and thermosets
  • Thermoplastics:
    • thermoforming
    • line  bending (+ animation)
    • vacuum forming (+ animation)
    • plug and yoke (+ animation)
    • expanded polystyrene (+ animation)
    • structural foam
    • rotational moulding
    • injection moulding (+ animation)
    • gas assisted injection moulding (+ animation)
    • injection blow moulding (+ animation)
    • extrusion blow moulding (+ animation)
    • inserts in plastic moulding
    • blown film (+ animation)
  • Thermosets
    • resins
    • hand lay-up of GRP (+ animation)
    • spraying resin and reinforcing material
    • resin transfer moulding (+ animation)
    • pultrusion process (+ animation)
    • injection moulding
    • compression moulding (DMC) (+ animation)
    • compression moulding (SMC) (+ animation)
  • Technology exercises
Measuring and Marking out
  • Measuring and marking out notes
  • Marking out tools and processes (animation)
  • Measuring tools and processes (animation)
  • Measuring & marking out test (interactive)
  • Design exercises
  • Technology exercises
Materials Processing
  • Hand tools animation
  • Machine tools animation
  • Plastics notes and animations
  • Heat treatment of metals:
    • normalising steel
    • hardening steel
    • tempering steel
    • annealing
    • hot working metals
    • cold working metals
  • Casting metals
    • sand casting
    • die casting
    • lost wax casting
    • finishing castings
  • Applying finishes
    • introduction
    • plastics
    • metals
    • painting steel
    • lacquering metals
    • galvanising and zinc plating 
    • electroplating (+ animation)
    • electroforming
    • anodising
    • patination
    • bluing
    • enamelling
    • plastic coating
    • etching (+animation)
    • abrading, filing and grinding (+ animation)
    • planishing
    • knurling
    • milling
  • Wood finishing processes
    • abrading (+ animation)
  • Technology exercises 1
  • Technology exercises 2
Assembling Parts
  • Temporary fixing methods
  • Semi permanent fixing methods
  • Permanent fixing methods
    • Silver soldering & brazing (+ animation)
    • cleaning after soldering
    • pickling (+ animation)
    • soft soldering
    • tinning the soldering iron
    • using a soldering iron
    • using a blow torch
    • tinning parts to be soldered
    • joining metals by forge welding
    • joining metals by gas welding
    • joining metals by electric arc welding
    • joining metals by riveting (+ animation)
    • pop riveting
    • joining wood: gluing wood to wood
    • wood joints (animation)
    • gluing laminates to sheet materials
    • joining wood using screws
    • joining materials using adhesives 
  • Technology exercises
Industrial Production
  • Introduction
  • Systems
  • Scale of production
  • One-off production
  • Batch production
  • Mass production & continuous production
  • Customisation and mass production
  • Design analysis exercises
  • Exercise: using machines to make products
  • Exercise: batch production of copper jewellery
Transporting, Storing & Displaying Products
  • packaging
  • resistant materials packages
  • important features of a product package
  • packaging design analysis exercises
Mechanisms
  • Mechanisms animations
  • Technology exercises
  • Design exercises
  • Design analysis exercises
Moral, Cultural, Environmental, Spiritual
  • Moral issues:
    • the design opportunity
    • the design specification
    • the design
    • choice of manufacturing material
    • recycling materials
    • use of energy
    • the manufacturing process
    • quality
    • health and safety
    • transporting the product
    • sales
    • after sales
  • Cultural issues:
    • culture
    • cultural evidence
    • cultural diversity
    • cultural change
    • cultural identity
    • cultural tourism
    • souvenirs
  • Environmental issues:
    • designed environments
    • transport
    • industry
  • Spiritual issues
  • Exercises in moral issues
  • Exercises in environmental issues
Structures
  • Structures notes:
    • frame structures
    • shell structures
    • loads
    • forces
    • struts and ties
    • beams
    • steel structural sections
  • Bridge types animation
  • Design exercises
Energy
  • Energy notes:
    • sources of energy
    • forms of energy
    • consequences of energy use
    • designing for energy conservation
  • Technology exercises
  • Design exercises

Animations

Graphics & Design Development Animations
  • Recording ideas and designs using notes and sketches (animation)
  • Design development animation
  • Isometric drawing animation and exercises
  • Oblique drawing animation
  • 1 point perspective drawing animation and exercises
  • 2 point perspective drawing animation and exercises
  • Parts drawing and cutting list animation
  • Rendering exercises
Wood Joints Animation
  • The reason that wood joints are used
  • Butt joint
  • Lapped joint
  • Tongue and grooved joint
  • Finger joint / comb joint
  • Dovetail joint
  • Lapped dovetail joint
  • Housing joint
  • Corner bridle joint
  • Through mortice and tenon joint
  • Stopped mortice and tenon joint
  • "T" halving joint
  • Bare faced tenon joint
  • Dowelled joint
  • Cross halving joint
  • "T" bridle joint

Measuring Tools Animations

  • steel rule
  • micrometer
  • digital micrometer
  • vernier caliper
  • height gauge
  • depth gauge
  • micrometer depth gauge
  • internal caliper
  • external caliper
  • combination set
  • dial gauge 
  • screw pitch gauge
  • feeler gauge
  • limit plug gauges (GO / NOGO gauges)
  • limit ring gauge
  • snap gauge
  • drill gauge
  • radius gauge
  • protractor
  • spirit level
  • electronic devices
Marking Out Tools Animations
  • pens and pencils
  • scriber
  • marking knife
  • engineer's square
  • woodworker's try square
  • dividers trammel
  • odd leg calipers
  • marking gauge 
  • cutting gauge
  • mortice gauge
  • centre punch
  • dot punch
  • mitre square
  • centre square
  • sliding bevel
  • bradawl
  • surface gauge
  • straight edge
  • vee block
  • angle plate
  • templates
  • surface plate
Hand Tools Animations

The hand tools animation consists of:

  • planes:
    • jointer plane
    • jack plane
    • smoothing plane
    • bench plane sizes
    • plane parts
    • sharpening angles for plane cutting irons
    • grinding and honing
    • frog angles
    • rebate plane
      • marking out a rebate
      • planing a rebate
    • shoulder plane
    • bull nose plane
  • spoke shaves
  • wood chisels:
    • firmer chisel 
    • bevel edged chisel
    • mortice chisel
      • using a mortice chisel
    • gouge
  • cold chisel
  • tinsnips and shears
    • using tinsnips
  • saws for wood:
    • tenon saw
    • dovetail saw
    • cross cut saw
    • rip saw
    • coping saw
  • hacksaw
  • junior hacksaw
  • abra file
  • hammers and mallets:
    • engineer's ball pein hammer
    • sledge hammer
    • rubber mallet
    • plastic faced hammers
    • soft faced hammers
    • rawhide mallet
    • bossing mallet
    • raising hammer
    • planishing hammer
    • doming hammer
    • cross pein hammer
    • claw hammer
    • woodworker's mallet
  • files:
    • description
    • roughness of cut
    • hand file
    • flat file
    • half round file
    • round file
    • square file
    • three square file
    • knife file
    • needle files
    • Swiss wax files
  • drills:
    • brace and bit
    • how to use a brace and bit
    • twist drills
    • countersink
      • riveting with countersunk head rivets
    • hand drill / wheel brace
  • Taps and dies:
    • taps and tap wrench
    • tapping a thread
    • die and diestock
    • cutting an external thread
    • drunken threads.
Machine Tools Animations

The machine tool animations illustrate: 

  • CNC:
    • description of computer numerical control
    • links between CAD, CAM and computer control
    • main difference between manual and CNC machines
    • 5 axis CNC miller
    • CNC lathe
  • buffer:
    • using a buffer
    • pickling
    • etching
  • sanding machines
    • disc sander
    • orbital sander
    • belt sander
    • reciprocating sander
    • spindle sander
      • abrasive papers and cloths
      • abrading
      • emery cloth
  • grinding machines:
    • bench grinder
    • surface grinder
    • angle grinder
  • drilling machines:
    • pillar drill
    • chuck key safety
    • portable power drill
    • twist drill bit
    • SDS drill bit
    • taper shank drill bit
    • grinding angles for drill bits
    • reamers
    • centre drill
    • countersinks
    • masonry drill bit
    • brad point drill bit
    • auger bits
    • flat bit
    • Forstner bit
    • counterbore and plug cutter
    • hole saw
  • vertical milling machine
  • router (power router):
    • router cutters
    • router collet
    • setting the depth of cut
    • using a power router
    • routing jig
    • router safety
  • horizontal milling machine
  • centre lathe:
    • lathe parts
    • holding work in a three jaw chuck
    • holding work in a four jaw chuck
    • turning between centres
    • facing off
    • parallel turning
    • taper turning
    • cutting tools
      • cutting tool grinding angles
  • power hacksaw
  • planer / thicknesser:
    • planing a face
    • planing an edge
    • thicknessing
  • wood saws:
    • bandsaw
      • using a bandsaw
    • circular saw
    • circular saw power tool
    • jig saw
    • fret saw:
      • parallel arm mechanism
      • parallel link arm mechanism 
      • C-arm mechanism
  • morticer:
    • using a morticer
  • wood lathe:
    • belt and pulley arrangement
    • turning between centres
    • turning on a face plate
    • scraping action
    • cutting action
    • chisels, scrapers and gouges
  • Shears:
    • bench shears
    • pneumatic guillotine
    • press tool.
Timber Products
  • Hardwoods and softwoods
  • Timber conversion
  • Timber defects
    • Cup shake
    • Heart shake
    • Star shake
    • Splits and shakes
    • Fungal attack
    • Woodworm (beetle attack)
    • Twisting, checks, bowing, resin sacks
    • Seasoning
    • Cutting veneer
    • plywood
    • blockboard
    • faced chipboard
    • Medium density fibreboard (MDF)
    • Solid timber boards
    • Advantages/disadvantages of timber and manufactured boards
Mechanisms Animations
  • types of motion
  • levers: Class 1, Class 2, Class 3, bell crank lever
  • linkages
  • pulleys and belts:
    • used to transmit motion and torque 
    • change speed of rotation
    • stepped cone pulleys
    • pulley belts used to transport products
    • pulley belts used as bandsaws
    • pulleys used for lifting and hauling
  • chain and sprocket drive
  • chain parts
  • Gears:
    • spur gears
    • gear train
    • bevel gears
    • worm gear
    • rack and pinion
  • cams, rotary and linear, cam followers
  • ratchet and pawl
  • crank mechanisms
  • crank and slider
  • application of screw mechanisms:
    • for clamping
    • to control movement
    • for lifting
  • ball screws
  • couplings
    • flanged
    • split
    • flexible
    • universal joint
  • friction used to oppose motion:
    • brakes
    • clamps
    • grips / knurling
  • reducing friction by the use of lubricants and bearings
  • lubrication
  • bearings:
    • bush
    • ball bearing
    • roller bearing
  • mechanisms used on a bicycle.
Plastics Notes and Animations
  • description of "plastic"
  • the main ingredients of most plastics
  • thermoplastics
  • thermosets
  • thermoforming:
    • line bending
    • vacuum forming
      • commonly used materials
    • plug & yoke
  • expanded polystyrene (EPS)
  • structural foam
    • commonly used materials
  • rotational moulding
    • commonly used materials
  • injection moulding
    • commonly used materials
  • gas assisted injection moulding
  • injection blow moulding
  • extrusion blow moulding
    • commonly used materials
  • inserts in plastic mouldings
  • blown film
  • thermosets
  • resins
  • hand lay-up of glass reinforced plastic (GRP)
  • sprayed polyester resin and reinforcing material
  • resin transfer moulding
  • pultrusion process
  • injection moulding
  • compression moulding:
    • dough moulding compound (DMC)
    • sheet moulding compound (SMC)
  • commonly used abbreviations of the names of polymers.
Riveting
  • Rivet types
  • Riveting with countersunk head rivets
  • Riveting with snap head rivets
  • Pop rivets

Bridges

  • beam bridges
  • continuous span bridge
  • simple span bridge
  • cantilever span bridge
  • cantilever with suspended span bridge
  • Warren deck truss bridge
  • Warren (through)Truss
  • Pratt Truss (through truss)
  • Howe Truss (through truss)
  • Lattice Truss (through truss)
  • Plate girder bridge 
  • Deck beam bridge
  • Orthotropic beam bridge
  • Rigid frame (inclined legs)
  • Rigid Frame (with V- legs)
  • Stone arch bridge
  • Open spandrel deck arch bridge
  • Spandrel braced arch bridge
  • Cantilever through truss bridge
  • Trussed deck arch bridge
  • Trussed through arch bridge
  • Ribbed arch bridge
  • Suspension bridge
  • Cable stayed bridge

The Interactive Worksheets and Exercises package consists of:

  • isometric drawing exercises
  • 1 point perspective drawing exercises
  • 2 point perspective drawing exercises
  • colouring and shading (rendering) exercises
  • measuring and marking out test
  • marking out and cutting tenons exercise
  • drills and bits exercises
  • file types and uses exercises
  • hand tools exercise
  • saws and their uses exercise
  • screw cutting tools exercise
  • reading a vernier caliper exercise
  • choosing the correct machine tool exercise
  • use of the buffer exercise
  • sanders and grinders exercise
  • machines exercise
  • wood machine exercise
  • turning exercise
  • wood turning exercise
  • making cupboard doors in MDF exercise
  • using machines to make products exercise
  • batch production of copper jewellery exercise
  • how plastic bottles are made exercise
  • manufacturing children's tableware exercise

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Design and Resistant Materials Technology V7.1

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Platform: PC.
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