| Composites Design and Manufacture (Plymouth University teaching support materials) Abbreviations and acronyms (including research projects/thematic networks). |
| C | Explanation | Location/Reference/Context as appropriate |
| C&D | Construction & Demolition waste | |
| C2 | Command and Control | |
| C-MOOC | Composites – Massive Open On-line Course | |
| C-plyTM | Spread-tow multi-axial carbon fibre non-crimp fabrics as low as 75 gsm/ply | Chomarat Textiles Industries (F) |
| C-RTM | Compression Resin Transfer Moulding | |
| CA | Caffeic Acid | |
| CA | Cellulose Acetate | |
| CAA | Chromic Acid Anodising | |
| CAA | Civil Aviation Authority | London - United Kingdom |
| CAAF | Clean Aviation Annual Forum | |
| CAAM | Canadian Advanced Air Mobility Consortium | |
| CAAPE | 3-((4,6-diChloro-s-triAzine-2-yl)Amino)Propyl Ester | |
| CAAT | Campaign Against the Arms Trade | |
| CAB | CelluloseAcetateButyrate | |
| CACRC | Commercial Aircraft Composite Repair Committee | |
| CAD | Computer-Aided Design | |
| CADMID | Concept, Assessment, Demonstration, Manufacture, In-service, Disposal | UK Ministry of Defence design methodology |
| CAE | Computer Aided Engineering | |
| CAEI | Compression-After-Edge-Impact | |
| CAEKO | Cyclic Aryl Ether Ketone Oligomers | |
| CAER | Center for Applied Energy Research | UK = University of Kentucky |
| CAFE | Corporate Average Fuel Economy | |
| CAFF | Center for American Flax Fiber | |
| CAG | Carbon AeroGel | |
| CAH | Common Aggregation Hierarchy | |
| CAI | Composites Affordability Initiative | |
| CAI | Compression (strength) After Impact | CRAG test method 403 |
| CAICAT | Composites Affordability Initiative Cost Analysis Tool | SAMPE Journal, March/April 2007, 43(2), 26-36. |
| CAIICA | Consortium for Accelarated Innovation and Insertion of Advanced Composites | |
| CaISO | California Independent System Operator | |
| CALM | Centre for Additive Layer Manufacturing | University of Exeter |
| CALM | Coalition of Automotive Lightweighting Materials | |
| CALMARE | Centre for ALternative MAterials and REmanufacturing Technologies | |
| CAM | Computer Aided Manufacturing | |
| CAMERA | Centre for the Analysis of Motion, Entertainment Research and Applications | |
| CAMERA | Collaboration for the Advancement of Medical Education, Research and Assessment | Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry |
| CAMHS | Child and Adolosent Mental Health Services | |
| CAMO | Continuing Airworthiness Management Organisation | |
| CAMRI | Composites Additive Manufacturing Research Instrument | Purdue University system developed for validation of virtual twin simulations & additive manufacturing |
| CAN | Covalent Adaptable Newtorks | |
| CANAL | CreAting NonconventionAl Laminates | |
| CANZ | Composites Association of New Zealand | |
| CAP | Cellulose Acetate Propionate | |
| CAP | Common Agricultural Policy | |
| CAP | Composites Assured Practitioner | |
| CAPE | CArboxylated PolyEthylene | |
| CAPEX | CAPital EXpenditure | |
| CAPM | Computer Aided Production Management | |
| CAPRI | Controlled Atmospheric Pressure Resin Infusion process | Boeing IPR in US Patent 5772950 |
| CAR | Center for Automotive Research | |
| CAR | Construction/Contractors All Risk | non-standard insurance policy |
| CAR | Critical Aspect Ratio (in the context of fibre critical length) | |
| CARAD | Civil Aircraft Research And Technology Demonstration | |
| CaRALL® | Carbon Reinforced ALuminium Laminate | |
| CARE | Centre for Applied Research in Electronics | IIT Delhi |
| CARM | Centre for Advanced and Renewable Materials | University of Wales - Bangor |
| CARP | Committee on Acoustic emission from Reinforced Plastics | |
| CARR | Context, Action, Result, Reflection | |
| CARS | Coherent Ani-Stokes Raman Scattering | |
| CARTM | Channel Assisted Resin Transfer Moulding | |
| CAS | Confirmation of Acceptance for Studies | |
| CASA | Civil Aviation Safety Authority | |
| CASCADE | Civil Aircraft Structural Composites - Application, Development & Exploitation | DTI CARAD initiative, July 2002-July 2004. |
| Cascale | global, non-profit alliance in apparel and consumer goods | formerly the Sustainable Apparel Coalition |
| CASD | [submarine] Continuous At Sea nuclear Deterrent | |
| CASE | Cooperative Awards in Science and Engineering | |
| CASH | Calcium Aluminum Silicate Hydroxide | |
| CASK | euro-Cents per Available Seat Kilometre | |
| CAST | Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations | Cardiff University |
| CAT | Centre for Alternative Technology | Machynlleth, Powys, SY20 9AZ |
| CAT | Computer-Aided Tomography (3-D imaging technique) | |
| CAT | Cruel, inhuman And degrading Treatment | |
| CATE | Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence | |
| Cat-HTR | catalytic HydroThermal Reactor | |
| CAV | Connected and Autonomous Vehicles | |
| CAV-ATD | Composite Armoured Vehicle – Advanced Technology Demonstrator | US Army |
| CAVE | Cave Automatic Virtual Environment | |
| C-AVS | Cylindrical Acoustic Vector Sensor | |
| CB | Carbon Black | |
| CB | Community Builder | |
| CB | Contingent Behaviour | |
| CbA | Certification-by-Analysis | Alpha STAR GENOA modular engineering software package |
| CBA | Chemical Blowing Agents | |
| CBA | Cost Benefit Analysis | |
| CBAM | Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism | |
| CBAM | Composite-Based Additive Manufacturing method | |
| CBC | Carpet Backing Cloth | |
| CBC | Chemically Bonded Ceramics | |
| CBEM | Convergent Beam Electron Diffraction | |
| CBF | Composite Bucket Foundations for offshore wind turbines | |
| CBF | Continuous Basalt Fiber | |
| CBM | Condition-Based Maintenance | |
| CBNRM | Community-Based Natural Resource Management | |
| CBR | Case Based Reasoning | |
| CBR | Composite Bearingless Rotor | |
| CBRNC | Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nucler and Explosive threats | |
| CBS | Curved Beam Strength | ASTM D6415(M)-06a(2013) Standard Test Method for measuring the curved beam strength of a fiber-reinforced polymer-matrix composite |
| CBT | Cyclic Butylene Terephthalate | Monomer used in RTM for thermoplastic composites |
| CC | Carbon fibre/Carbon matrix composites | |
| CC | Circulation Control | |
| CC | Climate Change | |
| CC | Compact Compression test | |
| CC | Creative Commons | |
| CC | β-cyclocitral | |
| CCA | Climate Change Adaptation | |
| CCA | Climate Change Agreement | |
| CCA | Concentric Cylinder Assembly | |
| CCA | Controlled Contamination Area | (to produce weak adhesive bonds) |
| CCAC | Climate and Clean Air Coalition | |
| CCBM | Closed Cavity Bag Moulding | |
| CCBP | Corrugated Composite Bipolar Plate | battery technology |
| CCD | Charge-Coupled Device | Imaging technology |
| CCD | Colony Collapse Disorder | sudden disappearance of bees from hives |
| CCE | Child Criminal Exploitation | |
| CCF | chanos chanos forsk | milkfish (bone components used in composites) |
| CCF | Chopped Carbon Fibre | |
| CCH2 | Cryo-Compressed Hydrogen | |
| CCL | Climate Change Levy | |
| CCL | Copper Clad Laminate | |
| CCL4 | Carbontetrachloride | |
| CCLRC | Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils | Didcot - United Kingdom |
| CCM | Center for Composite Materials | University of Delaware |
| CCM | Ceramic Composite Materials | |
| CCM | Continuous Compression Molding | |
| CCMA | Current Combined Modulation Annealing | |
| CCMPM | Conference on Composite Material Parts Manufacturing | |
| CCPS | Continuous Composite Preforming System | |
| CCRA | UK Climate Change Risk Assessment | |
| CCS | Carbon Capture and Storage | I Fells & J Horlock, Carbon capture and storage, Ingenia, 2006, 27, 36-41. |
| CCS | Complex Composite Structure | |
| CCSI | Culture and Creative Sectors and Industries | |
| CCTC | Clandestine Channel Threat Command | See also BFMC |
| CCU | Carbon Capture and Usage/Utilisation | |
| CCUS | Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage | |
| CCZM | Continuum Cohesive Zone Modeling | |
| CD | Carbon fines, powder | Designation used in recycle marks for polymers |
| CD | Circular Dichroism spectroscopy | |
| CD | ISO Committee Draft ballot stage | |
| CD | Continuous Discontinuous tow | Pepin Associates DiscoTexTM tows |
| CDB | Common Dissemination Booster | |
| CDD | Conservation Detection Dog | dogs trained to search for hedgehogs, dormice, invasive plants |
| CDE | Communication, Dissemination and Exploitation | |
| CDF | Cumulative Distribution Function | |
| CDFI | Community Development Financial Institution | |
| CDI | N,N'-Carbonyl Di Imidazole | |
| CDL | Christian Doppler Laboratory | |
| CDLI | Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative | |
| CDM | Clean Development Mechanism | Projects for issuing Certified Emission Reductions re Kyoto Protocol |
| CDMIPS | Chloro (Dimethyl) IsoPropyl Silane | |
| CDP | Carbon Disclosure Project | |
| CDR | Carbon Dioxide (CO2)Removal | |
| CDR | Collaborative on Reseach Development | |
| CDS | Characteristic Damage State | |
| CDW | Cell Dry Weight | |
| CDW | Construction and Demolition Waste | |
| CE | carboxylesterase | enzyme |
| CE | Circular Economy | |
| CE | cyclohexyl epoxy ester | |
| CEA | Controlled Environment Agriculture | |
| CEAMS | Centre of Expertise in Advanced Materials and Sustainability | |
| CEBE | Centre for Education in the Built Environment | A Subject Centre of the Higher Education Academy |
| CEC | Cation Exchange Capacity | Nutrient retention in plants |
| CEC | Contaminants of Emerging Concern | |
| CECAMM | Centre of Excellence for Composites, Advanced Manufacturing and Marine | Isle of Wight College |
| CECI | Center for Integration of Composites into Infrastructure | West Virginia University |
| CED | Cumulative Energy Demand | |
| CEDARS | Culture, Employment and Development in Academic Research Survey | |
| CEE | Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill | formerly known as the Climate and Ecology Bill |
| CEEQUAL | Civil Engineering Environmental Quality Assessment and Award Scheme | |
| CEL | Coupled Eulerian Lagrangian method | |
| CELAC | Community of Latin American and Caribbean States | |
| CELC | Confédération Européenne du Lin et du Chanvre | International Linen and Hemp Confederation |
| CellFRC | Cellular thermoplastic fibre reinforced composite | |
| CEM | Composite Extrusion Modelling process | |
| CEMA | Cyber ElectroMagnetic Activities | Army FM3-38 |
| CEMIPP | Cost-Effectiveness Methodology for Immunisation Programmes and Procurement | |
| CEMOVIS | Cryo-Electron microscopy of Frozen hydrated Vitreous Sections | |
| CEMP | cascade enzyme metathesis polymerization | |
| CEMS | Centre for Engineering Materials and Structures | University of Surrey |
| CEN | Comité Européen de Normalisation | European Standards Organisation, Brussels - Belgium |
| CEO | Chief Executive Officer | |
| CER | Certified Emission Reductions | Outcome of Clean Discharge Mechanism projects re Kyoto Protocol |
| CER | Cost Estimation Relationships | |
| CESAER | Conference of European Schools for Advanced Engineering Education and Research | |
| CETIM | [French] Technical Centre for Mechanical Industries | |
| CEVE | chloroethyl vinyl ether | |
| CEWS | Circular Economy for the Wind Sector | Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult |
| CF | Carbon fibre | Designation used in recycle marks for polymers |
| CFA | Cellulose Fibre Aerogel | |
| CFA | Composite Fabricators Association | United States organisation - now ACMA |
| CFA | Cornwall Floating Offshore Wind Accelerator | |
| CFAO | Continuous Fibre Angle Orientation | |
| CFBC | Carbon Fibre Bundle Composites | |
| CFBG | Chirped Fibre Bragg Grating | |
| CFC | ChloroFluoroCarbon(s) | |
| CFC-11 | TriChloroFluoroMethane | |
| CFC | Continuous Fibre Coextrusion | |
| CFCC | Continuous Fibre Ceramic Composites | |
| CFD | Computational Fluid Dynamics | |
| CFE | Crushing Force Efficiency | |
| CFEM | Cohesive Finite Element method | |
| CFF | Circular Footprint Formula | |
| CFF | Composite/Continuous Filament Fabrication | |
| CFFT | Concrete-Filled FRP Tube | |
| CFGF | Continuous Filament Glass Fibre | |
| CFHT | Carbon Fibre Heavy Tows | Concrete reinforcement from TU Dresden and Karl Mayer Malimo |
| CFIP | Continuous Fiber Injection Process | |
| CFJ | Co-Flow Jet | |
| CfM | Centre for Manufacture | University of Manchester |
| CFM | Chlorinated and Fluorinated M-group rubbers | |
| CFM | Continuous Filament Mat | |
| CFM | Cooperative Financial Mechanism | |
| CFMS | Centre for Modelling and Simulation | |
| CFOAM® | Carbon Foam tooling material | Touchstone Research Laboratory - Triadelphia WV (USA) |
| CFOI | Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries | |
| CFP | Consolidated Fibre Placement | |
| CFRM | Continuous Fibre Random Mat | |
| CFRP | Carbon Fibre Reinforced Plastics | |
| CFRTP | Carbon Fibre Reinforced ThermoPlastics | |
| CFSI | Counterfeit, Fraudulent and Suspect Items | |
| CFST | Concrete Filled Steel Tube | |
| CFT | Continuous Fibre Thermoplastics | |
| CFTC | Commonwealth Fund for Technical Cooperation | London - United Kingdom |
| CFVE | Carbon Fibre reinforced Vinyl Ester resin | |
| CG | Coarse Grained | |
| CGDM | Cold Gas Dynamic Manufacturing | |
| CGI | Computer Generated Images | |
| CGN | Centre for Genetic Resources | Wageningen University - Netherlands |
| CGPM | Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures | General Conference on Weights and Measures |
| CGR | Concrete Grinding Residue | |
| CGR | Crack Growth Rate | |
| CGTN | China Global Television News | |
| CH3Br | Methylbromide | |
| CH3CCl3 | Methylchloroform | |
| CH3Cl | Methylchloride | |
| Chafea | Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food Executive Agency | |
| CHANSE | Collaboration of Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe | |
| CHASSIS | Composite Hybrid Automotive Suspension System Innovative Structures | Ford Motor Company |
| CHATT | Cryogenic Hypersonic Advanced Tank Technologies | |
| CHDGE | cyclohexanedimethanol glycidyl ether | |
| CHDI | Corporate Human Development Index | |
| CHENACC | CHE Novel and Alternative Crops Consortium | CHE Limited is a Devon-based consultancy |
| CHHAPP | Composite Hull High Altitude Powered Platform | |
| CHI | Cultural Heritage Imaging | |
| CHIL | Collaborative Human Immersive Laboratory | |
| CHILE | Cure Hardening Instantaneous Linear Elastic | |
| CHIP | Chemicals (Hazard Information and Packaging for Supply) Regulations | |
| CHMI | Center for Composite and Hybrid Materials Interfacing | |
| CHOT | CHeap Optical Transducers | |
| CHP | Cyclohexanone peroxide | Initiator for addition polymerisation/curing |
| CHPHSV | Composite High Pressure Hydrogen Storage Vessel | |
| CHVE | cyclohexyl vinyl ether | |
| CHyM | Compression Hybrid Moulding | |
| CI | Carbonyl Index | |
| CI | Crystallinity Index | |
| CIA | Chemical Industries Association | |
| CIC | Composites Innovation Cluster | |
| CiCi | Corporate Investment and Community Impact | |
| CIDER | CIrcular product DEsign for automotive components made from Recycled and sustainable composite material | Coordinated by Fraunhofer Institute for Casting, Composite and Processing Technology (Fraunhofer IGCV) |
| CII | Carbon Intensity Indicator | |
| CIIR | Chlorinated IIR R-type rubber | |
| CILC | Confédération Internationale du Lin et du Chanvre | International Linen and Hemp Confederation |
| CiLE | Coursework in lieu of Examination | |
| CIM | Centre Impedance Method vibration testing | |
| CIM | Conventional Injection Moulding | |
| CIMComp | Centre for Innovatve Manufacturing in Composites | University of Nottingham/now Future Composites Manufacturing Research Hub |
| CIMEC | Ceramic and Inorganic Materials Committee | |
| CIMNFC | Competitive Industrial Materials from Non-Food Crops | LINK programme from May 1996, closed to new applications in May 2002 |
| CIN | Ceramic Innovation Network | |
| cinA | cinnamaldehyde | |
| CIOS | Cornwall and Isles of Scilly | |
| CIPP | Composite Cured-In-Place Pipe | Lanzo - USA |
| CIR | Cosmic Ion Radiation | |
| CIRA | Centro Italiano Richerche Aerospaziali | |
| CIRCLE | Center of International Research for the Clearance of Landmines and Explosives | |
| CIRCUIT | Circular Innovations Research Centre at University of Auckland | |
| CIRTM | Co-Injection Resin Transfer Moulding | |
| CITR | Community Investment Tax Relief | |
| CIVC | Certification, Inspection and Verification Cell | |
| CIW | Canadian Index of Wellbeing | |
| CJAR | Composite Joining And Repair | |
| CKA | cyclic ketene acetal | |
| CKHE | cyclic ketene hemiacetal ester | |
| CKN | Composites Knowledge Network | |
| CL | ChemiLuminescence | |
| CL | Crossed Lamellae | |
| CLA | Child Looked After | |
| CLASS | Composite Lightweight Automotive Suspension System | Ford Motor Company |
| CLBILS | Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Scheme | |
| CLC | Centre for Lightweight Composites | Cranfield University |
| CLCA | Consequential Life Cycle Assessment | |
| CLEANER | Combining Lower Emissions And Networked Energy Recovery | |
| CLEM | Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy | |
| CLF | Cellulose Long Filament | |
| CLF | Composites Leadership Forum | |
| CLF | Continuous Lattice Fabrication | |
| CLIP | Central Line Improvement Programme | TfL |
| CLIP | Continuous Liquid Interface Production | Carbon3D |
| CLO | Conjugated Linseed Oil | |
| CLP | Classification, Labelling and Packaging regulation | European Commission - Enterprise and Industry - Chemicals |
| CLS | Crack(ed) Lap Shear | |
| CLSC | Composite Lattice Sandwich Cylinders | |
| C-LSP | Composites - large scale project | |
| CLT | Classical Lamination Theory | |
| CLT | Composites Leadership Team | IOM3 |
| CLT | Cross-Laminated Timber | |
| CLTE | Coefficient of Linear Thermal Expansion | |
| CLUE | Contact Laser Ultrasound Excitation | |
| CM | Cellulose Membranes | |
| CM | Condition Monitoring | |
| CMA | Chemical Manufacturers Association | |
| Cmax | Formability Index | |
| CMC | Carboxy Methyl Cellulose | |
| CMC | Ceramic Matrix Composites | |
| CMC | Certification of Materials and Components | Det Norske Veritas |
| CMC | Critical Micelle Concentration | |
| CMDC | Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition | |
| CME | Centre for Materials Education | A Subject Centre of the Higher Education Academy |
| CME | Coefficient of Moisture Expansion | |
| CMfg | Cloud Manufacturing | |
| CMH | Composite Materials Handbook | |
| CML | Institute of Environmental Sciences | Leiden University |
| CMM | Coordinate Measuring Machine | |
| CMOS | complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor | |
| CMP | Coal Miners Pneumoconiosis | |
| CMPT | Custom Mouldmaking Process Technology | |
| CMTC | Composites Manufacturing Technical Center | |
| CMTS | Continuous Multi-Tow Shearing | |
| CMUT | Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer | |
| CMWKF | Coated Multi-axial Warp Knitted Fabric | |
| CN | Cellulose Nanocrystal | |
| CNA | CASE for New Academics | |
| CNCA | Corporate Natural Capital Accounts | |
| CND | Cumulative Normal Distribution | |
| CNDE | Centre for Non-Destructive Evaluation | |
| CNF | Cellulose NanoFibre | |
| CNG | Compressed Natural Gas | |
| CNN | Convolutional Neural Networks | |
| CNPIEC | China National Publications Import & Export (Group) Corporation | |
| CNSL | Cashew Nut Shell Liquid | |
| CNT | Carbon Nano Tubes | |
| CNTRC | Carbon Nano-Tube Reinforced Composite | |
| CNW | Cellulose NanoWhiskers | |
| -co- | - copolymerised with - | |
| CO | Poly(epichlorohydrin) O-group rubber | |
| CO2 | Carbon Dioxide | |
| COALINE | in-LINE COAting of pultruded composites | |
| CoARA | Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment | |
| COAST | Coast, Ocean And Sediment Transfer laboratory | |
| COAST | Composite Optical Automated Surface Tracking | |
| COBRA | Cabinet Office Briefing Room A | Whitehall |
| COBRAE | COmposites BRidge Alliance Europe | |
| COC | Cyclic Olefin Copolymers | |
| CoCoMaP | Competitive Composite Manufacturing Processes | Innovate UK funded project |
| COD | Chemical Oxygen Demand | ISO14044:2006(E) |
| COD | crack openingdisplacement | |
| COD | 1,5-cyclooctadiene | |
| CODA | Composite Component Design Analysis | |
| CODAM | COmposites DAmage Model | |
| CODE | Curing polyester resins On DEmand | |
| CODECO | COmputational Tools for the DEsign of COmposites components and structures | University of Manchester |
| COE | Cost of Energy | |
| COFA | COmposite Fitting Attachment | CRC-ACS |
| COFUND | Co-funding of Regional, National and International Programmes | |
| COG | Centre of Gravity | |
| Cogent | Sector Skills Council for ... | Oil and Gas Extraction, Chemicals Manufacturing and Petroleum Industries |
| COIN | Climate Outreach and Information Network | Oxford, OX4 1BG |
| COM | Centre of Mass | |
| COMBINE | COmmingled BIomaterials from NaturE | EPSRC Grant DT/E00685X/1 2007-2009 |
| COMINO | COMposite INjection Overmoulding | |
| COMPA | Composite Repairs for Ships: Service Demonstration, Certification and Market Entry | |
| COMPASS | COMPosites At Speed and Scale | |
| COMPERA | Creation and support of 'Competence Research Centres' | EC project reference 517844 |
| COMPET | Competitiveness Council | |
| COMPipe | Composite Pipes and fittings for aero-engines dressing | |
| ComPRIS | Composites Pressure Resin Infusion System | University of Maine (USA) |
| CONCERTO | Construction Of Novel CERTification methOds and means of compliance for disruptive technologies | |
| COPE | Caring, Optimistic, Practical, Expe850011439265850011439265850011439265850011439265850011439265rtise | Royal Hollaway in the context of mental health |
| COPE | Committee on Publication Ethics | |
| COPE | Copolyester | |
| COPV | Composite Over-wrapped Pressure Vessel | |
| COR | Concentric Offshore Riser | |
| CORAL-REEF | COmposites Research ALliance REgional Engineering Facilities | |
| CORDIS | Community Research & Development Information Service | |
| CORE | COnnecting REpositories | Knowledge Media Institute based at The Open University |
| CoRe HeaT | Continuous Resistance Heating Technology | |
| CORI | [UK] Committee on Research Integrity | |
| CoRiF | Consolidated Radioisotope Facility | University of Plymouth |
| CORONET | Thermoplastic Composites Infrastructure Cooperation Network | |
| CORSIA | Carbon-Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation | |
| CoSACNet | Advanced Polymeric Composites for Structural Appl's in Construction | University of Southampton |
| COSEWIC | Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada | |
| COSHH | Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations | |
| COSME | Competitiveness Of enterprises and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises | European Commission Enterprise and Industry |
| COSS | Collaborative ORE Subsea Systems | |
| COSY | COrrelated SpectroscopY | Nuclear Magnetic Resonance techniques |
| COTS | Commercial Off-The-Shelf | |
| CoV | Coefficient of Variation | |
| CP | Cellulose Powder | |
| CP | Continuous Polymerisation&bnsp; or Continuous Process | |
| CPA | Composites Processing Association | |
| CPAASM | Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing | |
| CPBA | chloroperbenzoic acid | |
| CPBE | Composites Part B: Engineering | |
| CPC | Centre for Polyners and Composites | University of Warwick WMG |
| CPC | Conductive Polymer Composites | |
| CPC | Cork Polymer Composites | |
| CPD | Continuing Professional Development | |
| CPE | Chlorinated PolyEthylene | |
| CPET | Crystallised PolyEthylene Terephthalate | |
| CPI | Centre for Process Innovation | HVM Catapult |
| CPI | Composites Processing Industries | |
| CPIC | Chongqing Polycomp International Corporation | |
| CPK | Process Capability Index | |
| CPL | Credit for Prior Learning | |
| CPM | Centrum för Produktrelaterad Miljöanalys | |
| CP-MAS | Cross Polarisation - Magic Angle Spinning (NMR) | |
| CPO | Chlorinated PolyOlefin | |
| CPO | Crystallographic Preferred Orientation | |
| CPP | Cherry Pit Powder | |
| CPP | Conjugated Porous Polymers | |
| CPP | Contribution to Problem Principle | |
| CPPS | Continuous Profile Preforming System | |
| CPPS | Cyber-Physical Production Systems | |
| CPS | Cyber-Physical Systems | |
| CPT | Carbon fibre Paper reinforced Thermoplastic | |
| CPT | Coherent Population Trapping | (in chip-scale atomic clocks) |
| CPT | Cured Ply Thickness | |
| CPTPP | Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership | |
| CPV | Composite Pressure Vessel | |
| CPVS | Cereal Pathogen Virulence Survey | |
| CPW | Co-Planar Waveguides | |
| CR | poly(β-Chlorobutadiene) R-group rubber or polychloroprene or Chloroprene Rubber | |
| CR | Computed Radiography | |
| CR | Cooling Rate | |
| CRA | Corrosion Resistant Alloy | |
| CRACTAC | Crashworthy Automotive Structures Using Thermoplastic Composites | University of Nottingham |
| CRADA | Cooperative Research And Development Agreement | |
| CRAG | Composite Research Advisory Group | UK MoD |
| CRASTE | Commercial and Government Responsive Access to Space Technology Exchange | |
| CRAUS | Compliant Robotic Arm for Underwater Scenarios | |
| CRB | Cracked Round Bar | |
| CRB | Criminal Records Bureau (now CR Services) | Agency for Disclosure and Barring Service (England, Wales and Northern Ireland). See Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland). |
| CRC-ACS | Cooperative Research Centre for Advanced Composite Structures | |
| CRCRM | Cross Research Council Responsive Mode | |
| CRCP | Continuous Reinforced Concrete Pavement | |
| CRD | Carbon Reduce Decision tool | |
| CRDP | Climate-Resilient Development Pathways | |
| CREDS | Centre for Research into Energy Research Demand Solutions | |
| CRG | Collaborating Research Group | |
| CRI | Confocal Raman Imaging | |
| CRIAQ | Consortium on Research and Innovation in Aerospace in Quebec | |
| CRIJAFT | Central Research Institute for Jute and Allied Fibres | Barrackpore - India |
| CRIS | Circular and Resilient Information System | |
| CRISPR | Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats | |
| CRISPS | Centre of Research excellence in Intelligent and Sustainable Productive Systems | |
| CRL | Certification Readiness Level | |
| CRL | Commercial Readiness Level | UK RCNDE |
| CRM | Certified Reference Materials | |
| CRMA | Critical Raw Materials Act | |
| CRMS | Craft Risk Management Standard | New Zealand |
| CRP | Cooperative Research Programme | OECD |
| CRTC | Composite Recycling Technology Center | |
| CRTM | Compression/Continuous Resin Transfer Moulding | |
| CROS | Careers in Research Online Survey | |
| CROSS | Special Grid Composite | Lauge Fuglsang Nielsen, Composite Materials, Springer, 2005. |
| CRTC | Composite Recycling Technology Center | |
| CRU | Composites Research Unit | National University of Ireland - Galway |
| CRW | Canard/Rotary Wing | Boeing X-50A Dragonfly UAV demonstrator |
| CRW | Continuous Resistance Welding | |
| CS | Compensating Surplus | |
| CS | Compressive Sensing | |
| CS | Corn Starch | |
| CSA | Coconut Shell Ash | |
| CSA | Composite Spheres Assemblage | Z Hashin, Journal of Applied Mechanics, 1962, 29, 143-150. |
| CSA | Cross-sectional area | |
| CSAC | Chip-Scale Atomic Clocks | |
| CSAI | Compression Strength After Impact | CRAG test method 403 |
| CSAM | Central and Southern America | |
| CSBF | Cotton Stalk Bark Fibres | |
| CSBT | Cornwall Sustainable Building Trust | |
| CSCNT | Cup-Stacked Carbon NanoTubes | |
| CSDE | Crack Surface Displacement Extrapolation | |
| CSE | Child Sexual Exploitation | |
| CSF | Continuous Sheet Forming | |
| CSF | Continuum Surface Force | |
| CSG | Council of State Governments | |
| CSI | Coupled Spiral Inductors | |
| CSIRO | Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation | Victoria - Australia |
| CSM | Chopped Strand Mat | |
| CSM | Chlorosulphonated polyethyene M-group rubbers | |
| CSO | Conjugated Soybean Oil | |
| CSP | Concentrated Solar Power | |
| CSP | Corporate Social Performance | |
| CSR | Corporate Social Responsibility | |
| CSR | Country-Specific Recommendations | |
| CSR | Critical Steering Ratio | |
| CSRD | Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive | |
| CSS | Conventional Serial Staggered algorithm | |
| CST | Composites Science and Technology | |
| CST | Council for Science and Technology | London - United Kingdom. Successor to ACOST |
| CSTF | Cumulative Stress Transfer Function | |
| CSWA | Certified SolidWorks Associate | |
| CT | Computer Tomography (3-D imaging technique) | |
| CT | Cumulative effective Temperature | |
| μ-CT | Micro-Computer Tomography | |
| CTA | Call to Action | |
| CTA | Cellulose Tri Acetate | |
| CTA | Chain Transfer Agent | |
| CTAL | Composites Technology and Applications Limited | |
| CTBN | Carboxyl-Terminated liquid Nitrile Rubber | |
| CTD | Cold Temperature Dry | |
| CTDIC | Cardanol derivative of Toluene-2,4-DiIsoCyanate | |
| CTE | Coefficient of Thermal Expansion | |
| CTFM | Composite-mode Total Focusing Method | |
| CTGNR | Chevron Type Graphene Nano Ribbons | |
| CTI | Centre Technique Industriel de la Plasturgie et des Composites | |
| CTLM | Contour Tape Laminating Machines | |
| CTMP | ChemiThermoMechanical Pulp | |
| CTPEGA | Carboxyl‐Yerminated Poly(Ethylene Glycol) Adipate | |
| CTS | Continuous Tow Shearing | |
| CTT | Currency Transaction Tax (James Tobin Tax) | |
| CTV | Crew Transfer Vessel | |
| CU | Customs Union | |
| CuAAC | copper-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition | |
| CUALT | Composite-Unit Accelerated Life Testing | |
| CUF | Carrera Unified Formulation | |
| CUI | Corrosion Under Insulation | |
| CUK | Composites UK | formerly Composites Processing Association |
| CUM | Cumulative Urbam Metabolism | |
| CUPS | Corrosion Under Pipe Supports | |
| CURE-TEX | Rapid cure resin systems initiated by UV light | DTI Technology Programme - April 2004 competition |
| CURV | composite of polypropylene fibres in a polypropylene matrix | Propex Fibres Inc |
| CUSP | Composite Ultra Lightweight Automotive Suspension Components | |
| cv | Commercial Variety | Plant names |
| CV | Compensating Variation (implied property right in the status quo) | |
| CV | Contingent Valuation | |
| CV | Curriculm Vita(e) | |
| CV | Cyclic Voltammetry | |
| CV/FEM | Control volume/finite element method | |
| CVCP | Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals | Now Universities UK |
| CVD | Chemical Vapour Deposition | |
| CVD | Clearly Visible Damage | |
| CVD | Color Vision Deficiency | |
| CVI | Chemical Vapour Infiltration | |
| CVID | Clearly Visible Impact Damage | See also BVID and VID |
| CVM | Comparative Vacuum Monitoring | |
| CVM | Control Volume Method | |
| cVMS | Cyclic volatile methyl siloxanes | 1−3 Hexamethylcyclotrisiloxane (D3), octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane (D4) decamethylcyclopentasiloxane (D5), dodecamethylcyclohexasiloxane (D6) |
| CVS | Cure Volume Shrinkage | |
| C-VUM | Cross-type VinylUrethane Macromonomer | |
| CWCT | Centre for Window and Cladding Technology | University of Bath |
| CWD | Continuous Wet Draping process | |
| CWR | Crop Wild Relatives | |
| CWT | Carbon fibre card Web reinforced Thermoplastic | |
| CWT | Continuous Wavelet Transform | |
| CXA | Computer-assisted X-ray Analyser | |
| CZELO | Czech Liaison Office for Research, Development and Innovation | |
| CZM | Cohesive Zone Modelling |