2.3 Flashcards
Socio-economics is the interaction between who?
Society and the economy
When was Bauhaus pre or post- first world?
Post-First war (1919-32)
What did Bauhaus do for industrial furniture making?
-Wassily chair
• tubule steel was easy to mass produce.
• meant that machines could be used to create an entire frame for chair or table.
Propertie of tubular sheet that was popular in 1919-32 for it to be mass produced for furniture.
- E,S
The inherent elasticity and strength made the materials desirable for future.
What did Gordon Russell create? U. why 💣?
Who was he influenced by? W
And what movement ? A&C
•Utility furniture. To provide people with standard furniture during the bomb raid on people’s house.
• William Morris’s
• Art and crafts
What did Council of industrial Design (COID) succeed it?
-T, A, I
What was the name of one influential exhibition? F
- Training, Assessment, information
- Festival of Britain
What important discovery was based around micro-electronics from William Shockley? S-C
Why? C,MP
•Semi-conducting devices
•Led to computers and mobile phones to proliferate
What does transistors do?
-makes devises more P, in terms of P
Makes devises more powerful in terms of processing
Benefits of micro electronic base technology developments
-P,C,CN,H S,Cal,M S
• phones, computers
• CNC
• High speed and millions of calculations
•medical scanning capability
What is Glulam?
Uses 2? B, Bu
• Several pieces of timber glued together
• Bridges, Buildings
What is Kevlar? Poly.., T,S
Uses? Pun To, Te
• Polyamide with tremendous toughness and tensile strength.
•Puncture resistant tyres, bulletproof vests
What is precious metal clay (PMC)
-particles of G,Si with PM
• Composed of particles of Gold, silver and other metals bonded with pliable median.
Possible uses of nano materials.
-S,D,C m
Example? Gr
• form of additives in sunscreen and cosmetics
• More advanced nano electronic devices
• Coating Materials
¥graphene
New method of manufacturing what has changed in the workforce
-Large/small no of highly skilled (emojis)… operators
🏋️🏋️🏋️->🧑💻🧑💻
Large number of, skilled manual machine operators-> smaller number of highly skilled computer based manufacturing operator
Function of direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) which is a type of advance 3-D printing of metals?
- layer by layer
• sinter (fuse) metal particle layer by layer to build to required form