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Aesthetics

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How a Product looks. IE: appearance, colour, style, surface reaction

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Function

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How it works and how well it works

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Anthropometric Data

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This is the measurements of the human body and is used for all objects humans use

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Market Pull

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This is how business has a need for a new product

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Technology Push

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the lust from businesses means that technology develops to fill this hole

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Bending

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The ability to withstand forces by the material bending.

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Compression

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The resistance to forces that are trying to get shorter or crush the material

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Shearing

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the resistance to forces sliding in opposite directions

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Tension

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the resistance to forces pulling in opposite directions

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Torsion

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The ability to withstand twisted forces

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Hardness

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The ability to resist abrasive wares. A materials hardness can change with the weather

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Durability

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Over time, how long the material lasts

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Toughness

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the ability to withstand shocks or sudden blows

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Brittle

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The to not withstand sudden blows

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Malleability

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The ability for materials to be shaped in only one way, shape or form

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Elasticity

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How much a material can be bent or shaped and then it return to it’s own shape

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Ductilness

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How much a material can be pulled in to shaped

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Fusibility

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the ability for a material to melt at a certain temperature.

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Conductibility

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Thermal, electrical conductors allow electricity or heat to pass along them. insulators do the opposite.

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Opacity

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How dark or light a material is.

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Types of Plastics

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Thermo/Non-Thermo Plastics

Eg: PET, HDPE, PVC, PP, HIPS, PMMA

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Metals

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Ferrous/ Non Ferrous metals. Then Alloys/ pure metals

EG: Anything with Iron/ Aluminium, copper, etc

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Ceramics

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Clay

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Timbers

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Manufactured Boards/ Softwoods/ Hard wood- Temperate materials/ Tropical hardwoods
EG: Chipboard, Pine, Mahogany

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Smart Materials

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Materials that have special Properties

EG: Polymorph, Shape-Memory Plastic, Nano Materials.

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