| Composites Design and Manufacture (Plymouth University teaching support materials) Abbreviations and acronyms (including research projects/thematic networks). |
| Explanation | Location/Reference/Context as appropriate | |
| 1LG | Monolayer graphene or single layer graphene | |
| 2-D | Two-dimensional | |
| 2FA | Two-factor authentication | |
| 2LG | Bilayer graphene | |
| 2-MeBO | 2-Methyl BenzOxazole | |
| 2-MeBT | 2-Methyl BenzoThiazole | |
| 2MM | Secondary Master Model for tooling | |
| 2V | Vacuum and vibration | |
| 3BL | Triple Bottom Line accounting | Economy - Environment - Equity or People - Planet - Profit |
| 3C | Communications, Computers and Consumer electronics | |
| 3D | Dirty, Dull and Dangerous | .. reasons for automation |
| 3-D | Three-dimensional | |
| 3-DEP | Three-dimensional engineered preforming | |
| 3-D GEMs | 3-D Genetically Engineered Micro/nano-devices | |
| 3DWC | Three-Dimensional Woven Composites | |
| 3DXRD | Three-Dimensional X-Ray Diffraction | |
| 3PL | Third Party Logistics | |
| 3R | Reduce, Refine, Replace | |
| 3S | Small, Smart, Safe | |
| 4-AFD | 4-AminoPhenylDisulphide | |
| 4Cs | Critical thinking, Communication, Collaboration and Creativity | |
| 4DPC | Four-dimensional printing of composites | |
| 4E | Energy, Exergy, Exergoeconomic and Enviroeconomic evaluation | |
| 4IR | Fourth Industrial Revolution | |
| 4 Vs | Variety, Velocity, Veracity, Volume | |
| 5 Rs | Refurbish, Reduce, Replace/Repair, Reuse/Recycle, Require (low carbon) | |
| 5 Vs | Value, Variety, Velocity, Veracity, Volume | |
| 7Cs | .. of resilience: confidence, control, coping, contribution, character, connection and competence | |
| 9R | 9 Circular Economy strategies | R0-R8 (see 10R below) |
| 10R | 10 Circular Economy strategies Potting et al, PBL Policy Report 2544, 2017. |
(R0) Refuse, (R1) Rethink, (R2) Reduce, (R3) Reuse, (R4) Repair, (R5) Refurbish, (R6) Remanufacture, (R7) Repurpose, (R8) Recycle and (R9) Recover. |
| 11R | 11 Framework of Circular Economy in the construction industry Çimen, J Clean Production, 2021. |
(R0) Refuse, (R1) Rethink, (R2) Reduce, (R3) Replace, (R4) Reuse, (R5) Repair, (R6) Refurbish, (R7) Remanufacture, (R8) Repurpose, (R9) Recycle and (R10) Recover. |
| 25 YEP | 25 Year Environment Plan |
| A | Explanation | Location/Reference/Context as appropriate |
| A4E | Airlines for Europe | the united voice of Europe’s leading airlines in Brussels |
| a- | Atactic (normally preceding a polymer type) | |
| A | frequency factor | |
| AA | acetic anhydride | |
| AA | acrylic acid | |
| AA | Assigned Amounts | Quantity of GHG emissions in the context of Kyoto Protocol |
| AACA | 2-diAllylAmino-4.6-diChloro-s-triAzine | |
| AACoMa | Accelerate Advanced Composite Manufacturing | Maasticht University |
| AAm | acrylamide | |
| AAM | Advanced Air Mobility | |
| AAMMC | American Aerospace Materials Manufacturing Center | |
| AANC | Airworthiness Assurance NDI Validation Center | |
| AAP | Acetyl acetone peroxide | Initiator for addition polymerisation/curing |
| AAPP | Atmospheric Air Pressure Plasma | |
| AAQA | Approval and Accreditation of Qualifications and Apprenticeships | |
| AASHTO | American Association of Highway and Transportation Officials | Washington DC - USA |
| ABAC | ABietic ACid | |
| ABBS | Advanced Blast and Ballistic Systems | |
| ABBSTRACT | Airbus, Bristol, Bath STrategic Research Alliance in Composites Technology | |
| ABC | Activity Based Costing | |
| ABC | Artificial Bee Colony | |
| ABDA | Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association | |
| ABR | Co-poly(butadiene-methylmethacrylate) R-group rubbers | |
| ABRC | Advisory Board for the Research Councils | |
| ABS | Access and Benefit-Sharing | |
| ABS | poly(Acrylonitrile-co-Butadiene-co-Styrene) copolymer | |
| AC | Advisory Circular | |
| AC | Alternative Crops | |
| AC72 | America's Cup 2013 72-foot catamarans | |
| ACA | Advanced Composites Alliance | |
| ACA | Anisotropic Conductive Adhesives | |
| ACA | Automotive Composites Alliance | |
| ACARE | Advisory Council for Aeronautics Research in Europe | |
| ACAVP | Advanced Composite Armoured Vehicle Platform | UK Ministry of Defence |
| ACC | Aqueous Counter Collision | |
| ACCA | Advanced Composite Cargo Aircraft | Lockheed Martion conversion of mid/aft fuselage and empennage of Dorneir 328J |
| ACCC | Aluminum Conductor Composite Core | Composite Technology Corporation |
| ACCEPT | Advancing Creative Circular Economies for Plastics via Technological-social transitions | Queen's University of Belfast - led by Professor David Rooney |
| ACCIS | Advanced Composites Centre for Innovation and Science | University of Bristol |
| ACCLAIM | Automated Cabin and Cargo Lining And hatrack Installation Method | |
| ACE | active chain end mechanism | |
| ACE | Awards for Composites Excellence | American Composites Manufacturers Association |
| ACED | Association of Civil Engineering Departments | |
| ACEE | Automotive Composites Conference and Exhibition | |
| ACerS | American Ceramics Society | Westerville OH - USA |
| ACFM | Alternating Current Field Measurement | |
| ACIS | Automated Composites Inspection System | McLaren Automotive |
| ACL | Advanced Composites Letters | |
| ACLAIM | Advanced Composite Life Assessment and Integrity Management | DTI Technology Programme - April 2004 competition |
| ACLV | Affordable Composites for Lightweight Vehicles | |
| ACMA | American Composites Manufacturers Association | United States organisation - formerly CFA |
| ACMC | Advanced Composites Manufacturing Centre | University of Plymouth |
| ACME | Applications of Computers in Manufacturing Engineering Directorate | |
| ACMG | Airline Costs Management Group | |
| ACMO | 4-acryloylmorpholine | |
| ACNF | Activated Carbon NanoFibres | |
| ACO | Ant Colony Optimisation | |
| ACoD | Anaerobic Co-Digestion | |
| ACOST | Advisory Council on Science and Technology | Now CST |
| ACP | Advanced Composites Project | NASA Langley Research Center Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate |
| ACPHB | Acetone-treated PHB | |
| ACPLLA | Acetone-treated PLLA | |
| ACRES | Affordable Composites from Renewable Sources | University of Delaware |
| ACRIM | All Composite Reduced Inertia Modular Wheels | |
| ACRTM | Articulated Continuous Resin Transfer Moulding | |
| ACS | Advanced Course Studentships | |
| ACSG | Advanced Composites Structures Group | University of Sheffield |
| ACSISTM | Automated Composite Structure Inspection System | Ingersoll Machine Tools |
| ACTOR | At-sea capability Testing for Offshore Renewables | |
| ACTUV | Anti-submarine warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel | |
| ACV | Air Cushion Vehicle | |
| ACV | Amphibious Combat Vehicle | |
| ACV | Apple Cider Vinegar | |
| ACW | Asbestos Containing Waste | |
| AD | Acetone Dried | |
| ADA | Acceptance Decision Algorithm | |
| ADACS | Analysis & Design of Aerospace Composites Structures | |
| ADAM | Atomic Diffusion Additive Manufacturing | |
| ADAM4EVE | ADAptive and smart Materials and structures for more Efficient VEssels | |
| ADAMS | Automatic Dynamic Analysis of Mechanical Systems | NREL/Germanischer Lloyd code for design of wind turbine blades |
| ADDCUR | ADDitively manufactured CURe Tooling | |
| ADDICT | Alcohol-Drugs-Drowning-Infant-Choking-Trauma | Emergency First Aid flow chart for non-breathing casualty |
| ADDRESS | ADvanced Dynamic REpair Solutions for Sustainable composites | Bristol Composites Institute |
| ADEME | Agence de l'Environnement et de la Maîtrise de l'Énergie | French Agency for Ecological Transition |
| ADF | Acid Detergent Fibre | |
| ADFP | Automated Dry Fiber Placement | |
| ADFRC | Highly Aligned Discontinuous Fibre Reinforced Composites | |
| AdhFASTTM | Fastener to revolutionise adhesive use | Assembly Automation, 02/06/2000, 20(2), 170-176. |
| ADI | Alternating Direction Implicit | |
| A-DISC | Adaptive DIscrete Smeared Crack model | |
| ADL | Acid Detergent Lignin | |
| ADL | Allowable Design Limit | |
| ADMET | acyclic diene metathesis polymerisation | |
| ADMP | Automated Dry Material Placement | |
| ADNOC | Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. | |
| ADP | Abiotic Depletion Potential (EICF) | |
| ADR | Automatic Defect Recognition | |
| ADTB | Acacia Dealbata Tree Bark (dye) | |
| ADVISE | Advanced Dynamic Validations using Integrated Simulation and Experimentation | |
| AE | Acoustic Emission (NDT/proof testing technique) | |
| AEB | Adult Education Budget | |
| AECMA | Association Europeene des Constructeurs de Materiel Aerospatial | European Aerospace Trade Federation |
| AEF | Academic Employment Function | Codes returned to HESA |
| AEG | [International] Aerospace Environmental Group | |
| AeIGT | Aerospace Innovation and Growth Team | |
| AEM | Analytical Electron Microscope | |
| AEM | Auger Electron Microscopy | |
| AEMTA | Advanced Electrical Machines Technologies for Aircraft | |
| AEP | Applied Engineering Programme | University of Warwick |
| AEP | N-aminoethylpiperazine | curing agent for epoxy resin |
| AeroSME | AeroSME encourages SME participation in the EU FP RTD | |
| AES | Achieving Excellence Systems | |
| AESICOM | Agrupación Española de Industrias de Composites | Spanish Association of Composites Industries |
| AESL | Acoustic Emission Source Location | |
| AESO | Acrylated Epoxidised Soybean Oil | |
| AEWC | Advanced Engineered Wood Composites Center | University of Maine |
| AF | Aluminium flakes | |
| AFC | Active Flow Control | |
| AFEM | Advanced/Augmented Finite Element Method | |
| AFFF | Aqueous Fire-Fighting Foam | |
| AFFT | Aligned Formable Fibre TechnologyTM | LiNEAT Composites unidirectional aligned discontinuous fibre tape |
| AFM | Advanced Fiber Modeler | Simulayt - Woking |
| AFM | Aerodynamic Figure of Merit | |
| AFM | Atomic Force Microscopy | |
| AFMP | Agreement on the Free Movement of Persons | |
| AFNOR | Association Francaise de NORmalisation | Saint Denis La Plaine - France |
| AFOLU | Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use | |
| AFP | Advanced Fire Protection | Fyfe Company LLC Tyfo® system |
| AFP | Automated Fibre Placement | |
| AFRA | Aircraft Fleet Recycling Association | |
| AFRC | Advanced Forming Research Centre | University of Strathclyde |
| AFRC | Agricultural and Food Research Council | Now incorporated into BBSRC |
| AFOLU | Agriculture, FOrestry and Land-Use | |
| AFRP | Aramid Fibre Reinforced Plastics | |
| AFT | Addition-Fragmentation chain Transfer | Vitrimers |
| AG | Advisory Group | |
| AGATE | Advanced General Aviation Transport Experiments (NIAR) | |
| AGC | Arrival, Gel, Cure sensor (Plastech TT Limited) | |
| AGE | Advisory Group on Energy | Horizon 2020 Expert Advisory Group |
| AGEC | Aerodynamic Ground Effect Craft | German term for WIG boat |
| AGI | Artificial General Intelligence | |
| AHC | Alan Harper Composites | |
| AHEP | Accreditation of Higher Education Programmes | |
| AHP | Analytic Hierarchy Process | |
| AI | Angle Interlock 3D woven preforms | |
| AI | Artificial Intelligence | |
| AIAG | Automotive Industry Action Group (USA) | |
| AIB | Amorphous Interlayer Bonding | |
| AIBN | 2,2'-azobisisobutyronitrile | |
| AILO | Association of Industrial Liason Officers | |
| AIM | Advanced Imaging of Materials | University of Swansea facility |
| AIN | Aerospace Innovation Networks | |
| AIR | Agriculture & Agro-Industry incl. Fisheries Research and Technological Development | EU Framework Programme 3 (1990-1996) |
| AIREX | Air Explosion | |
| AIRPOWER | Affordable Innovative Rapid Production of Offshore Wind Energy Rotor blades | |
| AIS | Accessible Information Standard | |
| AIRTeC | Aerospace Integrated Research and Test Centre | Airbus facility in Bristol |
| AITM | Airbus Industries Test Method | |
| aka | Also Known As | |
| AKD | Alkyl Ketone Dimer | |
| ALAN | Artificial Light At Night | |
| ALARP | As Low As Reasonably Practicable | |
| ALBOS | Affordable Lightweight BOdy Structures | Department for Transport |
| ALC | Aircraft Light Communication | |
| ALC | Automated Laminating Cell | |
| ALCA | Attributional Life Cycle Assessment | |
| ALCAS | Advanced Low-Cost Aircraft Structures | EU Framework 6, 2005-2009 |
| ALD | Atomic Layer Deposition | |
| ALDFG | Abandoned, Lost or Discarded Fishing Gear | |
| ALE | Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian formulation for flow problems | |
| ALE | Atomic Layer Etch | |
| ALF | Acacia leucophloea fibres | |
| ALL | Advanced Learner Loan | |
| ALM | All Lives Matter | |
| ALO | Agricultural Land Occupation | |
| ALOP | Agricultural Land Occupation Potential | |
| ALPS | Advanced Low Pressure System | EU Clean Sky engine project |
| -alt- | - alternating copolymer with - | |
| ALTO | A? Laminate Taper Optimisation | ACCIS Bristol |
| AM | activated monomer mechanism | |
| AM | Active Matrix displays | |
| AM | After Market | |
| AM | Additive Manufacturing | |
| AM | Ante Meridiem | Before midday (noon) |
| AMATHO | Additive MAnufacturing Tilt-rotor HOusing | |
| AMBER | Advanced Materials and BioEngineering Research | Trinity College Dublin in collaboration with University College Cork and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI). |
| AMC | Aluminium Matrix Composite | |
| AMCAPS | Affordable Manufacture of Composite Primary Structures | I = first phase, II = second phase |
| AMCM | Additive Manufacturing Compression Molding | Orbital Composites with ORNL |
| AMD | Availability Minus Demand | |
| AMF | Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi | |
| AMGA | Annotated Model Grant Agreement | |
| AMIC | Advanced Manufacturing Innovation Centre | Belfast Regional City Deal project |
| AMIDE | Advanced Materials and Additive Manufacturing Infrastructure Development and Education Alliance | |
| AML | Angle ply percentage Minus Longitudinal ply percentage | |
| AMLC | Advanced Materials Leadership Council | |
| AMMR | Asset Management, Maintenance and Reliability | |
| AMOC | Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation | a climate change issue |
| AM-OLED | Active Matrix - Organic Light Emitting Diode | |
| AMPLiFII | Automated Module-to-pack Pilot Line For Industrial Innovation | |
| AMR | Anti-Microbial Resistance | |
| AMR | Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre | University of Sheffield at Rotherham |
| AMRICC | Applied Materials Research, Innovation & Commercialisation Company | Stone, Staffordshire |
| AMSB | Administrative, Management and Supervisory Bodies | |
| AMSCI | Advanced Manufacturing Supply Chain Initiative | |
| AN | acrylonitrile | |
| ANA | Automated Nanomechnical Analysis | |
| ANAF | Aramid Nanofiber Aerogel Fibres | |
| ANDM | A Novel Defect detection Method | |
| ANDP | Adjusted Net Domestic Product | |
| ANDSCAN | Ultrasonic non-destructive testing | Registered Trademark of QinetiQ Limited |
| ANFIS | Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System | |
| ANFS | Aramid NanoFiber Sheet | |
| ANN | Artificial Neural Network | |
| ANNIRSA | ANN-Introduced enhanced version of the Reptile Search Algorithm (IRSA) | |
| ANOVA | ANalysis Of VAriations | |
| ANP | Analytic Network Process | |
| ANSI | American National Standards Institute | |
| AO | Atomic Oxygen | |
| AoA | Analysis of Alternatives | |
| AoA | Angle of Attack | |
| AoC | Aspergillus oryzae cutinase | |
| AoI | Area of Interest | |
| AOX | Absorbable Organic Halogen Compounds | ISO14044:2006(E) |
| AP | Access Point | |
| AP | Acidification Potential (EICF) | |
| AP | Anionic Polymerisation | |
| AP | Armour Piercing | |
| APA | Academic Professional Apprenticeship | |
| APB | Anti-Phase Boundary | |
| APC | Article Processing Charges | |
| APCC | Asian Pacific Coconut Community | |
| APDL | ANSYS Parametric Design Language | |
| APE | 3-AminoPropyltriEthoxysilane | |
| APER | Association pour la Plaisance Eco-Responsable | sector for deconstruction of leisure boats |
| APET | Amorphous PolyEthylene Terephthalate | |
| APGD | Atmospheric Pressure Glow Discharge | |
| APH | 1-acetyl-2- phenylhydrazine | |
| APHA | Animal and Plant Health Agency | |
| API | Active Pharmceutical Ingredient | |
| API | Application Programming Interfaces | |
| APIaas | Application Programming Interfaces as a Service | Cloud computing |
| APM | Advanced Pore Morphology foam | |
| APM | Advanced Production Machines | ACME technology theme |
| APM | 3-AminoPropyltriMethoxysilane | |
| APME | Association of Plastics Manufacturers in Europe | |
| APP | Ability to Pay Principle | |
| APP | Advanced Ply Placement | |
| aPP | Atactic Poly(Propylene) | |
| APP | Authorised Push Payment | scams |
| APPG | All-Party Parliamentary Group | |
| APPI | Atmospheric Pressure Photo-Ionisation | |
| AP-PLY | Advanced Placed Ply | |
| APPT | Atmospheric Plasma Pressure Technology/Treatment | |
| APR | Acoustic Pulse Reflectometry | |
| APR | Aqueous Phase Reforming | |
| APS | γ-aminopropyltriethoxy silane | |
| APSOH | Advanced Panoramic Sonar Hull Mounted | Indian Navy |
| APT | Aqua Power Technologies Limited | |
| AptiForm | Manufacture of complex components from self-reinforced plastics | |
| APTES | (3-Amino Propyl) TriEthoxy Silane | |
| APTS | γ-Amino Propyl Triethoxy Silane | |
| AQB | Authorised Qualifying Body | |
| AR | Assessment Report | Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change |
| AR | Augmented Reality | |
| ARALL | Aramid Reinforced Aluminium Laminate | |
| ARBS | Algorithmic and Rule-based Blackboard System | |
| ARCHE | Alliance for Research on Cultural Heritage in Europe | |
| ARCS | Affordable high-Rate Composite Structures | |
| ARDS | Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome | |
| ARE | Advanced Rear End | Clean Sky 2 demonstrator |
| AREA | Anticipate, Reflect, Engage and Act | |
| ARGET | Activators ReGenerated by Electron Transfer | |
| ARIA | Advanced Research and Invention Agency | |
| ARIES | Advanced Research and Innovation in Environmental Science doctoral training partnership | |
| ARMO | Alliance of Rotational Moulding Organisations | |
| ARMPITS | Achievable - Realistic _ Measurable - Positive - IMPORTANT - Timebound - Specific | Replaces SMART |
| AROMP | alternating ringopening metathesis polymerization | |
| AROP | anionic activated ring opening polymerisation | |
| ARP | Ammonia Recycle Percolation | |
| ARPA | US Advanced Research Projects Agency | now DARPA |
| ART | Algebraic Reconstruction Technique | |
| ART | Automotive Repair Technology | |
| ARTM | Advanced Resin Transfer Moulding | |
| ARTS | Adaptive and Responsive Textile Structures | |
| AS | As Spun | |
| ASA | Acrylonitrile-styrene-acrylate copolymer | |
| ASA | Alk(en)yl Succinic Anhydride | |
| ASAP | Advanced Structures Assembly Process | |
| ASC | Alternative Specific Constants | |
| ASCE | American Society of Civil Engineers | |
| ASCEND | Aeronatical and automotive Supply Chain ENabled Development | GKN Reddith collabortive project: £40M via Aerospace Technology Initiative and £20M from industry. |
| ASDA | Age - Site - Depth - Area | Emergency First Aid on burns |
| ASEAN | Association of Southeast Asian Nations | |
| ASF | Audi Space Frame | |
| ASF | Automated Stiffener Forming | |
| ASGS | Algebraic Sub-Grid Scale | |
| ASHMOD | Austrian Structural Health Monitoring system Demonstrator | AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH |
| ASHP | Air Source Heat Pump | |
| ASID | Advanced Structural integrated Demonstrator | |
| A-SMC | Advanced Sheet Molding Compound | |
| ASMD | Automatic Specimen Measuring Device | |
| ASR | Addition-type Silicone Rubbers | |
| ASR | Automotive Shredder Residue | |
| ASSET | Advanced Structural Systems for Tomorrow's Infrastructure | EU Funded project with Intersect, Cranfield & City universities |
| ASSET | Athena Survey of Science, Engineering and Technology | |
| ASSP | Autonomous Synchronised Stabilised Platform | |
| ASTEC | Aircraft Structural Test and Evaluation Center | |
| ASTM | ASTM International | Formerly the American Society for Testing and Materials |
| ASTRA | Advanced Structures Technology and Revolutionary Architecture | Spirit AeroSystems, Wichita KS |
| ASTREA | Autonomous System Technology - Related Airborne Assessment and Evaluation | |
| ASW | Anti-Submarine Warfare | |
| ATAS | Academic Technology Approval Scheme | |
| ATAS | Active Towed Array Sonar | |
| ATBN | Amine-Terminated liquid NBR | |
| ATC | AcetylTriethylCitrate plasticiser | |
| ATC | Air Traffic Control | |
| ATDS | Anti-Torpedo Defence System | |
| ATI | Adherent Technologies Incorporated | |
| ATI | Aerospace Technology Institute | |
| ATI | Appropriate Technology International | |
| ATL | Automated Tape Laying | |
| ATLAM | Automated Tape layering Additive Manufacturing | |
| ATM | Accelerated Testing Methodology | |
| ATMET | Acyclic Triene Metathesis | |
| ATNRP | Atom Transfer Nitroxide Radical Polymerisation | |
| ATO | Approved Training Organisation | |
| ATOM | Aeroelastic Turbine Optimisation Methods | University of Bristol wind turbine software |
| ATP | Aquatic Toxicity Potential (EICF) | |
| ATRm | Alternative Transitional Registration model | UK post-Brexit REACh system |
| ATR | Attenuated Total Reflection | |
| ATRP | Atom Transfer Radical Polymerisation | |
| ATS | Applicant Tracking System | WebOfJobs |
| ATSG | Aerospace Technology Steering Group | |
| ATT | [submarine] Aft Tilt Tank | |
| ATTOL | Autonomous Taxi Take-Off and Landing | |
| ATTOM | Affordable Tidal Turbines via Optimised Manufacture | |
| ATVP | Aerospace Technology Validation Programmes | |
| AU | Acousto-Ultrasonics | |
| AU | Polyesterurethane U-group rubbers | |
| AUI | Acceptable Ultimate Integrity | |
| AUSV | Autonomous unmanned sea vessel | |
| AUT | Automated Ultrasonic Testing | |
| AutoWDA | Automatic Welding Defect Assesssment | |
| AuxetNet | Auxetic Materials Network | University of Bolton |
| AV | Applied Voltage | |
| AV | Avicell paper | |
| AVA | Associative Vehicle Architecture | JLR |
| A-VARTM | Advanced VARTM | Mitsubishi/Toray |
| AVASA | Arbitrary Virtual Array Source Aperture | |
| AVGAS | Aviation gasoline/spirit | |
| AVOID | Airborne Volcanic Object Imaging Detector | |
| AWARE | Action on Waste Awareness and Resource Efficiency | BRE (trading name of Building Research Establishment Limited) |
| AWARE | Available WAter REmaining | |
| AWCB | Agricultural Waste, Co-products and By-products | |
| AWIC | Advanced Wing Integration Centre | |
| AYRS | Amateur Yacht Research Society | |
| AZL | Aachen Center for Integrative Lightweight Production | Aachener Zentrum für Integrativen Leichtbau |