Composites Design and Manufacture (Plymouth University teaching support materials)
Abbreviations and acronyms (including research projects/thematic networks).
H  Explanation  Location/Reference/Context as appropriate
H2O  Water  
HAA  High-Altitude Airship  
HAADF  High-Angle Annular Dark Field STEM
HAB  Hazardous Algal Blooms  
HAEV  Highly Automated Electric Vehicle  
HAHL  High Angle Helical Layers 
HAICoPAS  Highly Automatized Integrated Composites for Performing Adaptable Structures  
HAL  Hyper Articles en Lignes  Open access to e-prints papers or PhD theses from French universities or laboratories
HALE  High-Altitude, Long Endurance  QinetiQ unmanned aerial vehicle Zephyr
HALO  Hybrid Automotive Lightweight Optimisation  
HALS  Hindered Amine Light Stabilisers  
HALT  Highly Accelerated Life Testing  
HAP  Hazardous Air Pollutants  
HAp  HydroxyApatite: Ca10(PO4)6(OH)2  
HARN  High Aspect Ratio Nanomaterials  
HAROLD  Huddersfield Adhesion and Rolling contact Laboratory Dynamics rig  
HASS  Highly Accelerated Stress Screening  
HAVS  Hand-Arm Vibration Syndrome  
HAWT  Horizontal-Axis Wind Turbines  
HB  Hydrogen Bonding  
HB  p-HydroxyBenzoic acid  
HB  3-HydroxyButyrate  
HBBE  Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment  
HBC Hydromorph Bio Composites 
HBFC  HydroBromoFluoroCarbons  
hBN  Hexagonal (2D) boron nitride  
HBP  Human Brain Project  
HBP  Hyper Branched Polyester/Polymer  
HCBMPP  High Compression Bladder Molding Prepreg Process  Quatro Composites
HBVE 4-hydroxybutyl vinyl ether 
HCF  High Cycle Fatigue  
HCFC  HydroChloroFluoroCarbons  
HCP  Hardened (Portland+) Cement Paste  
HCP  Hexagonal Close Packing  
HCP  Hybrid Composite Plates  
HCP Hydrostatic Collapse Pressure  syntactic foams
HCTL High Contour Tape Layers  Cincinnati Machine
HDA Hydro-De-Aromatisation  TotalEnergies Fluids process
HDBPE High Density Bio-PolyEthylene 
HDDA 1,6-hexanediol diacrylate 
HDDGE hexanediol diglycidyl ether 
HDF  Heated Debulk/Hot Drape Forming  
HDHL  Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life  
HDI  Human Development Index  
HDO  HydroDeOxygenation  
HDPE-g-MA  High Density PolyEthylene grafted by Maleic Anhydride  
HDPE  High Density PolyEthylene  
HDS  HexaDecyl trimethoxy Silane  
HDS HydroDeSulphurisation 
HDT Heat Deflection/Distortion Temperature 
HDT Hit Definition Time 
HEA  Higher Education Academy 
HEA 2-hydroxyethyl acrylate 
HEAR  High Erucic Acid Resin  
HEAR  Higher Education Achievement Report  
HEBM  High Energy Ball Milling  
HECoS  Higher Education Classification of Subjects  
HEEET  Heatshield for Extreme Entry Environment Technology  
HEFCE  Higher Education Funding Council of England  Bristol - United Kingdom
HEI  Higher Education Institution  
HEIF  Higher Education Innovation Funding  
HELAR  High Efficiency Lightweight Aerodynamic Rim 
HELLO SAIlOR  HELping english Language develOpment in Shipping and mAritime Industries Leading tO impRoved safety  
HELP Hybrid ELectromagnetic Performing layer 
HEMA 2-Hydroxy Ethyl MethAcrylate 
HEMT GaN High-Electron Mobility Transistor 
HEP Hybrid Electric Propulsion 
HESCET Higher Education Supply Chains Emissions Tool  
HET acid HexachloroEndomethyleneTetrahydrophthalic acid  a.k.a chloroendic acid: monomer for reduced flammability in unsaturated polyester resins
HEUR  Hydrophobically modified Ethoxylated URethane  
HexFIT  Hexcel Film Infusion Technology  
HexMC  Hexcel Sheet Moulding Compound  
HFC  Hydro Fluoro Carbons  
HFCS  High Fructose Corn Syrup  
HFFR  Halogen-Free Flame Retardant  
HFGMC  High Fidelity Generalized Method of Cells  
HFIP  HexaFluoroIsoPropanol  Electrospinning solvent
HF-MOOSRA  Hesitant Fuzzy Multi-Objective Optimization on the basis of Simple Ratio Analysis  
HFRP  Hybrid carbon/glass Fibre Reinforced Plastics  
HFRPP  Hemp Fibre Reinforced PolyPropylene  
HFS  Heat Flux Sensor  
HF-SOWIA  Hesitant Fuzzy Subjective and Objective Weight Integrated Approach  
HGH Hot Gas Heater 
HGM Hollow Glass Microspheres 
HGMS Hollow Glass MicroSpheres 
HGT Hot Gas Torch 
HH  Hand-Held 
HH  (damage to) Human Health  
HHI High Household Income  
HHT  Hilbert-Huang Transform (in acoustic emission)  
HHV  High Heating Value  
HHx  3-HydroxyHexanoate  
HIC  Head Injury Criteria  
HiC Humicola insolens cutinase 
HiL  Hardware in Loop 
HiLDA  High Lift-to-Drag Aircraft  US Air Force Research Laboratory SensorCraft project
HiLiTe  High-volume Lightweight Technologies for vehicle structures  
HIM  Helium Ion Microscope  
HIMMOVAL  HIgh speed Metallic Material remOVAL under acceptable surface integrity for rotating frame  
HIP  Hot Isostatic Pressing  
HiPerDiF  High Performance Discontinuous Fibre  
HiPPAC  High-Performance Pultrusion for Advanced Composites  Brunel University
HIPS  High-Impact PolyStyrene  
HIPS  Hybrid Ice Protection System  
HIRECAR  High value composite materials from recycled carbon fibre  DTI Technology Programme - April 2004 competition
HIRF  High-Intensity Radiated Fields  
HIT  Helmet Impact Testing facility  Portland Biomechanics Laboratory
HITS  Hyperlink-Induced Topic Search  
HIUS  High-Intensity UltraSonification  
HKL  Hardwood Kraft Lignin  
HL  Hazard Level  
HLEBI  Homogeneous Low-energy EB Irradiation  
HLG  High Level Group  
HLS  Hue, Lightness and Saturation  
HLT  Hit Lock-Out Time  
HLU  Hand Lay-Up  
HMA  Hot Melt Adhesive  
HMAS  Herbarium Mycologicum Academiae Sinicae  
HMBC  Hetoeronuclear Multiple Bond Correlation NMR technique
HMC  High-glass content Moulding Compound  
HMCS  Her Majesty's Courts Service  
HMDA hexamethylenediamine 
HPA 2-hydroxypropanoic acid 
HMDIC hexamethylene diisocyanate  
HMFO HydroxyMethylFurfural Oxidase  oxidative enzymes
HMG  Her Majesty’s Government  
HMI  Human-Machine Interface  
HMM  Heterogeneous Multi-Scale Method  
HMPE  High Modulus PolyEthylene  
HMRC  Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs  
HMRI  Her Majesty's Railway Inspectorate  
HOIS  Harwell Offshore Inspection Services  
HOMC  Higher Order Modes Cluster  
HoMS  Holes Momentary or Stationary  
HOSDB  Home Office Scientific Development Branch  
HotSW  Heart of the South West  
HOV  Human Occupied Vehicle  subsea
HP  High Pressure  
HPAEC-PAD  High-Performance Anion-Exchange Chromatography with Pulsed Amperometric Detection  
HPC  Hydroxy Propyl Cellulose  
HP-CRTM  High-Pressure Compression Resin Transfer Moulding  
HPF  High-Pressure Freezing  
HPGe  High Purity Germanium  
HPH  High Pressure Homogenisation  
HPHTS  High-Pressure High-Temperature Sintering  
HPI  Happy Planet Index  
HPLC high performance liquid chromatography 
HPM  High Permeability Medium  Flow medium in RIFT in Composites, 2006, A37(9), 1316-1324.
HPP  High-Performance Polymers  
HPQM  2-hydroxypropyl-3-piperazinyl-quinoline carboxylic acid methacrylate  
HPRS  High-Pressure Reactive Sintering  
Hydro-PRT℠  Hydrothermal Plastic Recycling Technology 
HP-RTM  High-Pressure RTM  Krauss Maffei
HPT  High-Performance Thermoplastics  
HPT  High-Pressure Turbine  
HPTE  High-Pressure Torsion Extrusion  
HQP  Highly Qualified Personnel (Canada)  
HR  Heating Rate  
HR  Human Resources  
HRAGS  Highly Reliable Advanced Grid Structure  
HRECS  Hydrogen Refuelling and Electricity Charging Stations  
HRH  Hexamethylenetetramine, Resorcinol, Hydrated silica bonding system  
HRMA  High-Resolution Misalignment Analysis 
HRP  Horseradish Peroxidase  
HRRLS  Highly Reliable Reusable Launch Systems  
H-RTI  Highlight Reflectance Transformation Imaging  
HSARPA  Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency  
HSBO  High-Speed Boat Operations  
HSC  Enthalpy (H) , Entropy (S) and Heat Capacity (C) data 
HSC  High Speed (marine) Craft  
HSD  (Tukey's) Honest Significant Difference  
HSDT  Higher-order Shear Deformation Theory  
HSE  Health and Safety Executive  
HSHDCC  High-Strength High-Ductility Cementitious Composite  
HSI  HyperSpectral Imaging  
HSM  Heat Sealing Module  
HSM  High Speed Mixer  
HSP  Highly Sensitive People  
HSSMI  High-Speed Sustainable Manufacturing Institute  
HSV  High-Speed Video  
HT  Halpin-Tsai equations  
HT  High Temperature  
HT  Human Toxicity  
HT  Hydrogenated Tallow  
HTC  Heavy Tow Cable (Ship-EOMIC)  
HTCL  Hybrid Titanium Composite Laminates  
HTE  Higher Technical Education 
HTF  Heat Transfer Fluid  Quickstep polyglycol
HTL  HydroThermal Liquefaction  
HTMS High Temperature Materials Systems Bristol/company #13525962
HTP Human Toxicity Potential (EICF) 
HTRTM  High Temperature RTM  
HTS  High Tensile Strength  
HTS  High Throughput System  PerkinElmer multi-elemental analysis
HTS  Hygrothermally Stable Laminates  
HTS-SQUID  Highly Sensitive Superconductive SQUID magnetometer  
HTV  Hypersonic Technology Vehicle  
HUMS  Health and Usage Monitoring Systems  
HUMSA  Hull-Mounted Sonar Advanced  
HUMVAD  Hull-Mounted and Variable Depth Sonar  
HV  HydroxyValerate  
HVC  HexaValent Chromium compounds  
HVD  High-Value Design  
HVI  High Volume Instrument  Measures fibre lengths, elongations and tensile strengths
HVM  High Value Manufacturing  
HVO  Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil fuel  
HVOF  High Velocity Oxygen Fuel Thermal Spray Process  
HVARTM  Heated Vacuum-Assisted Resin Transfer Molding process  Advaero Technologies
HYDRA  HYper Distributed RFID Antenna 
HyFiSyn  Hybrid Fibre-reinforced composites: achieving Synergetic effects through microstructural design and advanced simulation tools  H2020 grant agreement ID 765881
HyPerVARTM  High Performance VARTM  
HyRECM Hybrid Radio Enabled Composite Material  
HYSUCAT  HYdrofoil SUpported CATamaran  

Sources:  WIG Terminology
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Created by John Summerscales on 04-Jul-2005 and updated on 28-Apr-2025 10:59. Terms and conditions. Errors and omissions. Corrections.