| F |
Explanation |
Location/Reference/Context as appropriate |
| f | molar fraction of comonomer | |
| F | copolymer composition | |
| F&DT | Fatigue and Damage Tolerance | |
| F&R | Function and Reliability | |
| F2F |
Farm-to-Fork |
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| F2MC |
Fluidic Flexible Matrix Composite |
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| FA |
Fatty Acids |
|
| FA |
Furfuryl Alcohol |
Precursor for furan resins |
| FAA |
Federal Aviation Administration |
Washington DC - USA |
| FABW |
Find A Better Way |
Charity for clearance of active (land)mines |
| FAC |
Flow Assisted/Accelerated Corrosion |
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| FAC2T |
Florida Advanced Center for Composite Technologies |
Florida State University |
| FACE |
Free-Air Carbon Enrichment |
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| FACF |
Fibre Area Correction Factor |
|
| FACTS |
Future Area Control Tools System |
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| FAETP |
Freshwater Aquatic Ecotoxicity Potential (EICF) |
|
| FAI |
First Article Inspection |
Boeing requirement |
| FAIR |
First Article Inspection Reports |
|
| FAIR |
Agriculture and Fisheries including Agro-Industry, Food Technologies, Forestry, Agriculure and Rural Development |
EU Framework Programme 4 (1994-1998) |
| FAL |
Final Assembly Line |
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| FAME |
Fatty Acid Methyl Esters |
|
| FAMOUS |
Forensic Analysis Methodology Objective User Selection | |
| FANDANGO |
FAN Design And iNtegrity, GO |
UKRI project |
| FANTASTIC |
Future Advanced Nacelle Technology and Structural Intergration Concepts |
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| FANTASTICAL |
FAN Testing And STatistical Integrity CALibration |
UKRI project |
| FAO |
Food and Agricultural Organisation |
United Nations organisation at Rome - Italy |
| FAS |
Fluoro Alkyl Silane |
|
| FAST |
Fatigue, Aerodynamics, Structures and Turbulence |
NREL/Germanischer Lloyd code for design of wind turbine blades |
| FAST |
Field Assisted Sintering Technology |
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| FASTRAC |
Fast Remotely Activated/Actuated Channelling/Channels |
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| FAT |
Factory Acceptance Test |
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| FAUSST |
FAser Und Stahl STandard Verbinder |
Fibre and steel standardised joint/transition element between fibre-reinforced materials and steel. |
| FAW |
Fibre/Fabric Areal Weight |
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| FBC |
Faraday Battery Challenge |
|
| FBC |
Fluidised Bed Combustion |
|
| FBG |
Fibre Bragg Grating |
|
| FBH |
Flat Bottom Hole |
|
| FBP |
Filtered Back Projection |
|
| FBR |
Fire retardant Bio-based/-degradable Recyclable | |
| FBS |
Fibre Bending System |
|
| FBT |
Fokker Bond Tester |
|
| F-BWM |
Fuzzy Best Worst Method |
|
| FC |
Field Cured (magnets) |
|
| FCA | 2,5-furandicarboxaldehyde | |
| FCAS | Future Combat Air System | |
| FCCVD | Floating Catalytic Chemical Vapour Deposition |
|
| FCG |
Focal Construct Geometry |
|
| FCH |
Fuel Cells and Hydrogen joint undertaking |
|
| FCM |
Finite Cell Method | |
| FCMA |
Filtered Canny Misalignment Analysis |
|
| FCMF | Fiber and Composite Manufacturing Facility | UTK |
| FCMRH | Future Composites Manufacturing Research Hub |
formerly CIMComp/at University of Nottingham |
| FCN | Fully-Connected Neural Networks | |
| FCP | Fuzzy C-Means | |
| FCP | Fibrous Cellulose Powder | |
| FCRIP |
Flooding and Coastal Resilience Innovation Project | |
| FCS |
Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy |
|
| FCV |
Fuel Cell Vehicles |
|
| FD |
Fossil resource Depletion |
|
| FD |
Freeze Dried |
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| FDA | Fibre Dominated Actuators | |
| FDAS |
Fibre Dimensional Analysis System |
|
| FDC |
Fibre Direct Compounding injection moulding |
|
| FDCA |
2,5-furandicarboxylic acid |
|
| FDD |
Fault Detection and Diagnosis |
|
| FDDF |
Fibre Diameter Distribution Factor |
|
| F-DEMATEL |
fuzzy-DEcision-MAking Trial and Evaluation Laboratory |
|
| FDI |
Foreign Direct Investment |
|
| FDIS |
Formal Draft International Standard ballot stage |
|
| FDM |
Fatigue Damage Modelling |
|
| FDM |
Fused Deposition Modelling |
|
| FDN |
Fixed Dialling Number |
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| FDP |
Fossil resource Depletion Potential |
|
| FDS |
Fire Dynamic Simulation |
|
| FDTD |
Finite Difference Time Domain |
|
| Fe |
Iron |
|
| FE |
Field Emission (microscopy) |
|
| FE |
Freshwater Eutrophication |
|
| FEA |
Finite Element Analysis |
|
| FEAST |
Forum for Engineering, Applied Sciences and Technology |
|
| FEC |
Full Economic Costing |
|
| FEC |
Further Education College |
|
| FECF |
Forest Ecosystem Compensation Fund |
|
| FEED |
Front End Engineering Design |
|
| FEF |
Flow-Enhancing Fabric |
|
| FEF |
Fringing Electric Field |
|
| FEG |
Field Emission Gun |
|
| FEG-SEM |
Field Emission Gun - Scanning Electron Microscopy |
|
| FEICA |
Association of the European Adhesive & Sealant Industry ! |
|
| FEM |
Finite Element Modelling |
|
| FEM |
Fluctuation Electron Microscopy |
|
| FEP |
Freshwater Eutrophication Potential |
|
| FEP |
Fluorinated Ethylene Propylene copolymers |
|
| FER |
Flexible Epoxy Resin |
|
| FESEM |
Field Effect Scanning Electron Microscopy |
|
| FESS |
Flywheel Energy Storage Systems | |
| FET |
Field-Effect Transistor |
|
| FET |
Flow-enhancing tow |
|
| FET |
Freshwater EcoToxicity |
|
| FET |
Future and Emerging Technologies |
European Commission Consultation |
| FETP |
Freshwater EcoToxicity Potential |
|
| FEW |
Food-Energy-Water nexus |
|
| FEWE |
Food-Energy-Water-Emissions nexus |
|
| FEWS |
Fibre Evanescent Wave Sensor/Spectroscopy |
|
| FF |
Fossil Fuels |
|
| FF |
Furfural |
Precursor for furan resins |
| FF |
Future Fund | |
| FFA |
Free Fatty Acids |
|
| FFC |
Flexible Flat Cable |
|
| FFC |
Floor/Flow Flooding Chamber |
|
| FFES |
Far-Field ElectroSpinning |
|
| FFF |
Fused Filament Fabrication |
|
| FFL |
Fishing for Litter |
|
| FFMC |
Fluidic Flexible Matrix Composite |
|
| FFP |
Fitness For Purpose |
|
| FFRP |
Flexible Fibre-Reinforced Pipe |
|
| FFS |
Fitness For Service |
|
| FFT |
Fast Fourier Transform |
|
| FFU |
Fibre-reinforced Foamed Urethane |
|
| FFV |
Flexible Fuel Vehicles |
|
| FFV |
Fractional Free Volume |
|
| FGCS |
Functionally Graded Cylindrical Shells |
|
| FGF |
Fused Granulate (pellet) Fabrication |
|
| FG-GPLRC |
Functionally Graded Graphene Platelets Reinforced Composite |
|
| FGM |
Functionally Graded Material |
|
| FGP |
Functionally Graded Porous |
|
| FGPM |
Functionally Graded Piezoelectric Material |
|
| FGW |
Feature Guided Waves |
|
| FGW |
First Great Western |
|
| FH |
Flight Hours |
|
| FHE |
Flexible Hybrid Electronics |
|
| FIAS |
Front Impacting Absorbing Structure |
|
| FIB |
Focussed Ion-Beam microscope |
|
| FIB |
Function in the Box |
|
| FiberSIM |
Suite of software for composite design and manufacturing |
Vistagy Inc |
| FIBRALSPEC |
Functionalized Innovative Carbon Fibers Developed from Novel Precursors with Cost Efficiency and Tailored Properties |
National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) FP7 project, G |
| FIBRE |
Faserinstitut Bremen e.V. |
|
| FIBRENAMICS |
The New World of Fibre-Based Materials |
Raul Fangueiro at University of Minho |
| FibStruct |
Advanced composite construction materials from non-wood fibres |
LINK CIMNFC LK0811 |
| FIDIC |
The International Federation of Consulting Engineers |
|
| FIM |
Film Insert Moulding |
|
| FIND |
Future Innovation in Non-Destructive Evaluation | University of Bristol EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training |
| FiPIF | Finnish Plastics Industry Federation | |
| FIRES |
Future Industrial Resource Efficient Strategy |
FIRES ‘Absolute Zero’ report: road map for UK Industry and Policy to meeting 2050 emissions targets |
| FIRPA |
Finnish Additive Manufacturing [Rapid Prototyping!] Association | |
| fiRST |
Film Infusion Reuseable Silicone Technology |
Alan Harper Composites |
| FISH |
Fluorescence in-situ Hybridisation |
|
| FishBAC |
FishBone Active Camber |
|
| FISHSHAPED |
Fainting-Infant-Shock-Head-Stroke-Heart-Asphyxia-Poisoning-Epilepsy-Diabetic |
Emergency First Aid on unconciousness |
| FISP |
Façade Inspection Safety Program |
|
| FI-STAR |
Future Internet Social and Technological Alignment Research |
|
| FIT |
Feed-In Tariffs |
|
| FIT |
Flexible Initiation Test |
|
| FITNESs |
Fibre Tessili Naturali per l'Edilizia Sostenibile |
Natural Textile Fibers for Sustainble Building |
| FIVE |
Fire In VEhicles conference |
|
| FKP |
Feather Keratin Polymers |
|
| FL |
Fuzzy Logic |
|
| FLAG |
Forest, Land and Agriculture | Science-Based Tergets Initiative |
| FLARE |
Flying Laboratory for Aeronautical REsearch |
|
| FlAsH |
Fluorescein bi-Arsenical Hairpin-binding |
|
| FLAVA |
Flexible Lightweight Architectures for Vehicle Applications |
|
| FLAVIIR |
Flapless Aerial Vehicle Integrated Interdisciplinary Research |
BAE Systems Engineering/EPSRC funded research project |
| FLC |
Fuzzy Logic Controller |
|
| FLD |
Forming Limit Diagram |
|
| FLDA | 9,9-din-octylfluorene-2,7-dicarboxaldehyde |
|
| FLDC |
Fisher Linear Discriminant Classifier |
|
| FLDF |
Fibre Length Distribution Factor |
|
| FLF |
Future Leaders Fellowships |
UKRI |
| FLG |
Few-Layer Graphene |
|
| FLIM |
Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy |
|
| FLIP |
Fluid Implicit Particle |
|
| FLM |
Fused Layer Modelling |
|
| FLOW |
FLoating Offshore Wind |
|
| FLOWER |
Flax composites, LOW weight, End of life and Recycling |
Interreg France Channel|Manche England project |
| FLPP |
Future Launchers Preparatory Program |
|
| FLRAA | Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft | |
| FLSCA | Fluorescently-Labelled Silane Coupling Agent |
|
| FM-CEACS |
Fabrication Methods for Crash Energy Absorbing Composite Structures |
University of Nottingham |
| FMC | Flexibe Matrix Composites | |
| FMC | Full Matrix Capture | |
| FMEA | Failure Modes and Effects Analysis | |
| FMECA | Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis |
|
| FMEL | Fibre-Metal-Elastomer Laminates | |
| FMFO | Fuzzy Multi-Footprint Optimisation | |
| FMI | Functional Mock-up Interface | |
| FML | Fibre-reinforced Metal Laminates | |
| FMLC |
Fibre Metal Laminates Centre of Competence | |
| FMOLS |
Fully Modified Ordinary Least Squares |
|
| FMPV |
Fast Missile Patrol Vessel |
|
| FMR |
Ferro Magnetic Resonance |
|
| FMR |
Functional Magnetic Resonance imageing |
|
| FMU |
Fuel Management Unit | |
| FN |
False Negative |
|
| FNIS |
Fuzzy Negative-Ideal Solution |
|
| FNM |
Floating Node Method | |
| FNO |
False Negative number of Objects |
|
| FNSAA |
Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture |
|
| FO |
Fibre Optics |
|
| FO |
Fluidic Origami |
|
| FOA |
Funding Opportunity Announcement |
|
| FOAF |
Future of the Aircraft Factory |
|
| FOD |
Foreign Object Damage |
|
| FOD |
Foreign Object Debris |
|
| FODDAS |
Fibre Optic Damage Detection and Assessment Systems |
|
| FODF |
Fibre Orientation Distribution Factor |
|
| FOE |
Friends of the Earth |
Switzerland |
| FOEFL |
Federal Office of Environment, Forests and Landscape |
Switzerland |
| FOG |
Fats, Oils and Greases |
|
| FOGG |
Fats, Oil, Grit and Grease (in sewage treatment plants) |
|
| FOGV |
Fan Outlet Guide Vane |
|
| FOM |
Fluctuation Optical Microscopy |
|
| FOMO |
Fear Of Missing Out |
|
| FOS |
Fibre Optic Sensors |
|
| FOTA |
Freeware Over-The-Air |
|
| FOTS |
Tricholoro (perFluoroOctyl) Silane |
|
| FOV |
Field of View |
|
| FOWT |
Floating Offshore Wind Turbines |
|
| FP |
False Positive |
|
| FP |
Framework Programme |
EU's chief instrument for funding R&TD |
| FP |
Frontal Polymerisation |
|
| FP5 |
Fifth Framework Programme for scientific R&TD |
EU's chief instrument for funding R&TD over the period 1998 to 2002 |
| FP6 |
Sixth Framework Programme for scientific R&TD |
EU's chief instrument for funding R&TD over the period 2002 to 2006 |
| FP7 |
Seventh Framework Programme for scientific R&TD |
EU's chief instrument for funding R&TD over the period 2007 to 2013 |
| FPA |
Fan Propulsor Assembly |
|
| FPA |
Fibre
Processing Aid |
|
| FPA |
Fluorescent Protein Activation |
|
| FPA |
Focal Plane Array |
|
| FPALM |
Fluorescent PhotoActivated Localisation Activation Microscopy |
|
| FPC |
Far/Flat Platform Chassis |
Far-UK |
| FPCM |
International Conference [series] on Flow Processes in Composite Materials |
On-line archive |
| FPDVA |
Floating Pendulum Dynamic Vibration Absorption |
|
| FPE |
FlexPly End-effector |
Robotic pick-and-place |
| FPI |
Fast Probability Integrator |
|
| F-PIBO | novel silane telomer |
free radical terpolymer of dodecafluoroheptyl methacrylate (DFMA)/isobornyl methacrylate (IBOMA)/3-mercaptopropyltrimethoxysilane (KH-590) |
| FPICT |
Facilitation Centre for Industrial Plasma Technologies |
|
| FPIS |
Fuzzy Positive-Ideal Solution |
|
| FPKS |
Flow Pattern Permeability Space |
|
| FPM |
FluidFM® probe microscopy |
|
| FPM |
Finite Pointset Method |
CFD tool from Fraunhofer
Institute for Industrial Mathematics |
| FPM |
Fluorinated M-group rubbers |
|
| FPO |
False Positive number of Objects |
number of false alarms |
| FPP |
Fibre Patch Placement |
|
| FPP |
Fibre Patch Preforming |
EADS IW/Oxeon AB/Manz Automation development |
| FPP |
Fluid Pressure Penetration |
|
| FPP |
Functional Paper Products |
|
| FPPP |
Faraday Plastics and Polymer Partnership |
formerly Faraday Plastics Partnership |
| FPS |
Finite Plate Spline |
|
| FPS |
Finite PointSet Method |
|
| FPS |
Frames per Second |
|
| FPSH |
First-order Perturbation-based Stochastic Homogenisation |
|
| FPSO |
Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (in oil exploitation) |
|
| FPTS |
Trichloro (3,3,3-triFluoro Propyl) Silane |
|
| FPV |
Floating PhotoVoltaics | |
| FPZ |
Fracture Process Zone |
|
| FR |
Fire Retardant |
|
| FRAAL |
(glass) Fibre Reinforced Aluminium Alloy Laminates | |
| FRAP |
Ferric-ion Reducing Antioxidant Parameter |
|
| FRAP |
Fluorescence recovery after
photobleaching |
|
| FRCP |
Fibre Reinforced Composite Parts |
|
| FRD |
Full Raw Data |
|
| FREI |
Fiber Reinforced Elastomeric Isolators |
|
| FRET |
Forster Resonance Energy Transfer |
|
| FRF |
Frequency Response Function |
|
| FROMP |
Frontal Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerisation |
|
| FRP |
Fibre Reinforced Plastic |
|
| FRP | free radical polymerization | |
| FRS | Fibre Reinforced Shotcrete | |
| FRTP | Fibre Reinforced ThermoPlastic | |
| FRV | Fishing Research Vessel | |
| FSAM |
Friction Stir Additive Manufacturing |
|
| FSAPDS |
Fin Stabilised Armour Piercing Discarding Sabot |
|
| FSD |
Fore-Scattered Detectors |
|
| FSDT |
First-order Shear Deformation Theory |
|
| FSFEM |
FFT-based Spectral Finite Element Method |
|
| FSP |
Fragment Simulating Projectiles |
|
| FSP |
Friction Stir Processing |
|
| FSPC |
Free Standing Post-Cure |
|
| FSPCM |
Form-Stable Phase Change Materials |
|
| FSI |
Fluid-Structure Interaction |
|
| FSS |
Frequency Selective Surfaces |
|
| FSSW |
Friction Stir Spot Welding |
|
| FST |
Flame, Smoke and Toxicity requirements |
|
| FSTA |
Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft |
Modified Airbus A330 for the Royal Air Force |
| FSW |
Friction Stir Welding |
|
| FT |
Flexible Tooling |
|
| FT |
Fourier Transform |
|
| FTA |
Fast Track to Approval | |
| FTE |
Fixed Trailing Edge |
GKN Aerospace product for Airbus Wing of Tomorrow |
| FTE |
Full Time Equivalent |
|
| FTFCS |
Fault Tolerant Flight Control System |
|
| FTIR |
Fourier Transform Infra Red spectroscopy |
|
| FTOP |
Funding and Tender Opportunities Portal | |
| FTP |
Fire Test Procedures (SOLAS) |
|
| FTT |
Fibre Torsion Tester |
|
| FTT |
Financial Transaction Tax |
|
| FTT | [submarine] Forward Tilt Tank | |
| FUBACOMP |
Full barrel composites |
Dassault Aviation in conjunction with BAE Systems |
| FVC |
Fibre Volume Content |
|
| FVCOM |
Finite Volume Ocean Coastal Model |
|
| FVF |
Fibre Volume Fraction | |
| FVM |
Finite Volume Method |
|
| FW |
Filament winding |
|
| FWC |
Full Waveform Capture |
|
| FWH |
Ffowcs Williams - Hawkings |
acoustic analogy method |
| FWHM |
Full Width at Half Maximum |
|
| FWMM |
Four Wave Mixing Microscopy |
|