What are 'Mechanical Properties'? - Properties of materials, including strength, hardness,
density, durability, toughness, malleability, elasticity and ductility
What is 'bending'? - The ability to withstand forces that are attempting to bend
What is 'compression'? - The resistance to forces tha...
DT GCSE - AQA
What are 'Mechanical Properties'? - ✔✔✔Properties of materials, including strength, hardness,
density, durability, toughness, malleability, elasticity and ductility
What is 'bending'? - ✔✔✔The ability to withstand forces that are attempting to bend
What is 'compression'? - ✔✔✔The resistance to forces that are trying to crush or shorten
What is 'shear'? - ✔✔✔The resistance to forces sliding in opposite directions
What is 'tension'? - ✔✔✔The resistance to forces pulling in opposite directions
What is 'torsion'? - ✔✔✔The ability to withstand twisting forces
What is 'fabrication'? - ✔✔✔The joining together of pieces, whether or not they are the same material
What are 'hardwoods'? - ✔✔✔Timber that tends to be from slow growing, broad-leafed trees
What are 'softwoods'? - ✔✔✔Timber from quick growing conifers
What is 'conversion'? - ✔✔✔Taking the trunk of the tree and sawing it into planks of a usable size
Which is the simplest, quickest and simplest way of conversion? - ✔✔✔Through and through sawn
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