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Composites Design and Manufacture (Plymouth University teaching support materials) Abbreviations and acronyms (including research projects/thematic networks). |
| R | Explanation | Location/Reference/Context as appropriate |
| -R | suffix indicating R-group rubbers | polymer chain contains unsaturation (eg BR, CR, IIR, NBR, SBR) |
| R&D | Research and Development | |
| R&T | Research and Technology | |
| R&TD | Research and Technological Development | |
| RA | (damage to) Resource Availability | |
| RA | Ricinoleic Acid | |
| RAAC | Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete | |
| RACA | Recently Advanced Contact Angle | wetting of surfaces |
| RAD | Radioactive Potential (EICF) | |
| RAE | Research Assessment Exercise 2008 | |
| RAEng | Royal Academy of Engineers | London - United Kingdom |
| RAFT | Reversible Addition–Fragmentation chain-Transfer | |
| RAISE | Responsible Generative Artificial Intelligence for SMEs in UK and Africa | |
| RaKE | Research and Knowledge Exchange | |
| RAL | Requisitory Assessment Level | |
| RAL | Rutherford Appleton Laboratory | |
| RAM | Reliability, Availability and Maintainability | |
| RAMI | Reference Architecture Model Industrie | |
| RAMLAB | Rotterdam Additive Manufacturing LAB | |
| RAMP | Reaction Assisted Molding Process | CardXX of Englewood - Colorado |
| RAMS | Risk Assessments and Method Statements | |
| RAMSSES | Realisation and Demonstration of Advanced Material Solutions for Sustainable and Efficient Ships | |
| -ran- | - random copolymer with - | |
| RAN | Rainforest Action Network | |
| RANN | Research on National Needs | |
| RANS | Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes | |
| RANSE | Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes Equations | |
| RAP | Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement | |
| RAP | Resource Allocation Panel | EPSRC |
| RAP | Review of Academic Practice | |
| RAPID | Rate Assembly Process Information Demonstrator | |
| RAPID | Reconstruction Algorithm for Probabilistic Inspection of Damage in composites | |
| RAPM | RApid high-Performance Manufacturing | pronounced “wrap-em” |
| RaRAT | Rapid Repair Analysis Tool | ESRD contract for the U.S. Navy in support of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. |
| RARP | Reasonable Adjustment Review Panel | |
| RARTM | Rubber Assisted Resin Transfer Moulding | |
| RASCAL | Rotorcraft Aircrew Systems Concepts Airborne Laboratory | |
| RATE | Radioactivity and the Environment | |
| RATRP | Reverse Atom Transfer Radical Polymerisation | |
| RBD | Rigid Body Displacement | |
| RBD | Rigid Body Dynamics | |
| RBF | Radial Basis Function networks | |
| RBFNN | Radial Basis Function Neural Networks | |
| RBI | Risk Based Inspection | |
| RBM | Radial Breathing Mode (in Raman spectroscopy) | |
| RBM | Regenerated Binding Materials | |
| RBO | Rice Bran Oil technology | Eco-friendly process for production of jute sacks for packing foodstuffs |
| RBSC | Reaction Bonded SiC/Si Composites | |
| RBSN | Reaction Bonded Silicon Nitride | |
| RC | Recurring Costs | |
| RC | Reinforced Concrete | |
| RC | Research Challenges | |
| RC | Research Council | |
| RCA | Responsible Corresponding Author | |
| rCB | Recovered Carbon Black | |
| RCD | Recreational Craft Directive | European Community directive |
| rCF | Recycled Carbon Fibres | |
| RCF | Refractory Ceramic Fibres | |
| RCI | Resistive Contrast Imaging | Electron Microscopy |
| RCM | Rapid Chlorine Migration | |
| RCMS | Real Current Material State | |
| RCNDE | Research Centre in Non-Destructive Evaluation | |
| RCP | Representative Concentration Pathway | GHG concentration trajectory adopted by IPCC |
| RCR | Relative Citation Ratio | |
| RCS | Radar Cross-Section | |
| RCS | Regulations, (design) Codes and Standards | |
| RCS | Respirable Crystalline Silica | |
| RCUK | Research Councils United Kingdom | Strategic partnership to champion research, training and innovation |
| RCV | Refuse Collection Vehicle | |
| RDA | Reference Defect Artefacts | |
| RDA | Regional Development Agencies | |
| RDA | Rheological/Rheometric Dynamic Analysis | |
| RDCFL | Rapid Dry Carbon Fibre Lay-up | |
| RDCR | Recycling, Disassembly, Circular materials and Reuse | |
| RDECOM | Research, Development and Engineering Command | US Army |
| RDF | Residue Derived Fuels | |
| RDO | Robust Design Optimization | |
| RDRP | Reversible-deactivation Radical Polymerisation | |
| RDT | Random Decrement signature Technique | |
| RDV | Rapid Deployment Vehicle | |
| RE | Rare Earth Elements | |
| RE3 | Rethinking Resources and Recycling | The University of Manchester - led by Professor Lin Li |
| RESCUE | REliable, Safe and cost-effective design of Composite parts Under sErvice loadings | |
| REACH | Recycling and Renewable Energy Commercialisation Hub | |
| REACh | Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation [and Restriction] of Chemicals | |
| REACH | Restoring Estuarine and Coastal Habitats | |
| ReAlCar | Recycled Aluminium Car | |
| REAP | Resource Efficiency Action Plan | |
| REAP | Research for Emergency Aftershock Response | |
| ReAsH | Resorufin red bi-Arsenical Hairpin-binding | |
| REBus | Resource Efficient Business models | |
| RECCO | Recycling Carbon fibre reinforced COmposites | ADEME project |
| RECCOMP | Recycling Composites | DTI Technology Programme - April 2004 competition |
| ReCiPe | Reduced Energy Consumption in Plastics Engineering | EC Energy and Transport Directorate Intelligent Energy – Europe RIVM, CML, PRé Consultants, and Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen project |
| ReCoVeR | REgenerated COmposite ValuE Reinforcement | |
| RED | Record Engineering Development Department | Abbey Road Studios |
| RED | Renewable Energy Directive | |
| REDD | Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation | |
| REDII | Revised Renewable Energy Directive | |
| ReDisCoveR | Recycling, Disassembly, Circular materials and Reuse | |
| Redr | Register of Engineers for Disaster Relief | |
| REF | Research Excellence Framework | |
| REFAB | Revolution in Food and Biomass Production | |
| REFIT | Regulatory Fitness and Performance | |
| REFORM | Resource-Efficient Factory Of Recyclable Manufacturing for composite components | |
| REforMM | Resource Efficiency for Materials and Manufacturing | |
| REGO | Renewable Energy Guarantees of Origin | |
| REIxx | R = fire resistance (load-bearing capacity in fire), E = integrity (the prevention of smoke and flame spread) and I = fire insulation. |
Marine fire safety coefficients |
| RELACRE | Associação de Laboratórios Acreditados de Portugal | |
| REMS | Renewable Energy Marine Structures | |
| REnKA | Regularising Ensemble Kalman Algorithm | |
| REPA | Resource and Environmental Process Analysis | |
| RER | Renewable Energy consumption Rate index | |
| RER | Representative of the region of Europe | ecoinvent life cycle data |
| RESCUE | REliable, Safe and cost-effective design of Composite parts Under sErvice loadings | |
| RESET | Reliability and Safety Engineering and Technology | |
| RET | Rain Erosion Testing | |
| REUL | Retained EU Law bill | |
| REV | Representative Element(ary) Volume | |
| RF | Aramid fibre | Designation used in recycle marks for polymers |
| RF | Random Forest | |
| RFC | Reasons For Concern | |
| RFCS | Research Fund for Coal and Steel | |
| RFF | Resources For the Future | |
| RFI | Resin Film Infusion | |
| RFID | Radio Frequency Identification | |
| RFL | Resorcinol-Formaldehyde Latex | |
| RFP | Request for Proposal | |
| RFR | Resorcinol-Formaldehyde Resin | |
| RFS | Renewable Fuel Standard | |
| RFW | Rotary Friction Welding | |
| RFWT | Robotic Filament Winding Technique | |
| RGB | Red Green Blue | TSR projection technique |
| RGBN | Red, Green, Blue, Normal image dataset | |
| RGD | Rapid Gas Decompression | |
| RGF | Randomly-oriented Glass Fibre composites | |
| RGF | Reference Geometric Factor | |
| RGGI | Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative | |
| RGO | Reduced Graphite/Graphene Oxide | |
| RGP | Refiner Ground Pulp | |
| RH | Relative Humidity | |
| RHA | Rolled Homogeneous Armour | |
| RHCM | Rapid Heat Cycle Moulding | |
| rHDPE | Recycled High Density Poly (Ethylene) | |
| RHF | Rice Husk Flour | |
| RHI | Renewable Heat Incentive | |
| RHIB | Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat | |
| RHQT | Rapid Heating Quenching and Transformation | |
| RIA | Representative Image Area | |
| RIA | Research and Innovation Actions | |
| RIB | Rigid Inflatable Boat | |
| RIC | Resin Identification Code | |
| RICE | Resin Infusion Centre of Excellence | Pipex px Plymouth |
| RICE | Rest - Ice - Compression - Elevation | Emergency First Aid on sprains |
| RICFP | Radical-Induced Cationic Frontal Polymerisation | |
| Ricreare | Recuperodi sCaRtiaEronAutici nella prospecttiva industRia 4.0 e sostEnibilita | |
| RICS | Raster-scan Image Correlation Spectroscopy | |
| RID | Research Infrastructures Database | EurOcean Marine |
| RIDDOR | Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013 | UK Health and Safety Executive |
| RIDFT | Resin Infusion between Double Flexible Tooling | JR Thagard PhD thesis, Florida State University, 2003. JRPC, 2004. |
| RIE | Reactive Ion Etching | |
| RIF | Rectangular Indicator Field | |
| RIFT | Resin Infusion under Flexible Tooling | |
| RIGS | Rapid Innovation GrantS | |
| RIKT | Research, Innovation and Knowledge Transfer | EPC committee |
| RIM | Reaction Injection Moulding | |
| RIMS | Real Initial Material State | |
| RIMFIRE | Robotic In Mould FIbre REinforcement) | |
| RIMS | Real Initial Material State | |
| RIMTA | Rhode Island Marine Trade’s Association | |
| RINA | Registro Italiano Navale | |
| RINA | Royal Institution of Naval Architects | |
| RINGO | Research and Independent Non-Governmental Organizations | |
| RIP | Resin Injection Pultrusion | |
| RIPS | Reaction-Induced Phase Separation | |
| RIRM | Resin Injection Recirculation Moulding | |
| RIS | Rail Industry Standards | |
| RIS | Road Investment Strategy | |
| RISE | Raman Imaging Scanning Electron microscopy | |
| RISE | Recognising Inspirational Scientists and Engineers | EPSRC |
| RISE | Research and Innovation Staff Exchange | |
| RISE | Research, Innovation, and Science Policy Experts | |
| RITE | Reducing the Impact of Textiles on the Environment industry network | |
| RIvEt | Record Individual Evaluation | European Commission Framework Programme 7 software |
| RIVM | National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Netherlands | |
| RIVS | Research Impact Video Series | |
| RKC | Renewable Energy Kuznets Curve | |
| RL | Reflection Loss (dB) | |
| RLB | Rechargeable Lithium-metal Batteries | |
| RLB | Roland Levinsky Building | University of Plymouth main campus |
| RLD | Real Life/Road Load Data | |
| rLDPE | Recycled Low Density Poly (Ethylene) | |
| RLI | Resin Liquid Infusion | |
| RLM | Reflected Light Microscopy | |
| RLV | Reusable Launch Vehicle | |
| RMA | Research Managers and Administrators | |
| RMS | Root Mean Square | |
| RMS | Royal Microscopical Society | |
| RMSE | Root-Mean-Square-Error | |
| RMU | Removal Units | Sink credits traded through the emissions trading and JI mechanisms |
| RMVT | Reissner mixed variational theorem | |
| RNCF | Recycled Newspaper Cellulose Fibre | |
| RNF | Recycled Newspaper Fibre | |
| RNLI | Royal National Lifeboat Institution | |
| RNN | Recurrent Neural Networks | |
| RoAAO | Register of Apprentice Assessment Organisations | |
| ROADLITE | Low Investment Manufacturing of Large Transportation Structures | University of Nottingham |
| ROAR | Record of Amended Results | |
| ROAR | Right of Admission Reserved | |
| ROB | [submarine] Reserve of Buoyancy | |
| ROC | Receiver Operating Condition | |
| RoC | Report on Carcinogens | |
| ROCCS | Rapid Output Controllable Composite Shapes | Carbon Fiber Preforms Limited (CFP), West Midlands UK. |
| RoEPAO | Register of End Point Assessment Organisations | |
| ROF | Regulating Our Future | |
| RoHS | Restriction of Hazardous Substances | Directive 2002/95/EC |
| ROI | Regions of Interest | |
| ROI | Return On Investment | |
| RollOE | Roll Off Emissions | |
| ROM | Rule of Mixtures | |
| ROMP | Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerisation | |
| ROP | Recycled-Office-Paper fibres | |
| ROP | Ring Opening Polymerisation | |
| ROPS | RollOver Protective Structure | |
| ROS | reactive oxygen species | |
| RP | Rescue Principle | |
| RP | Revealed Preference | |
| RPA | Rural Payments Agency | |
| RPAS | Remotely-Piloted Aircraft Systems | |
| RPC | Reactive Powder Concrete | |
| rPET | Recycled Poly(Ethylene Terephthalate) | |
| RPIF | Research Partnership Investment Fund | |
| RPL | Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) | University of Plymouth form |
| rPLA | Recycled PLA | |
| rPM | Recycled Plastics Materials | |
| RPN | Risk Priority Number | |
| rPP | Recycled Poly (Propylene) | |
| RPS | Renewable Portfolio Standards | |
| RPUF | Rigid PolyUrethane Foam | |
| RQFII | Renminbi Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor | |
| RQI | Representative Quality Indicator | |
| RR | Round Robin | |
| RRC | Residual Resin Content (after fire) | |
| RRCA | Recently Receded Contact Angle | dewetting of surfaces |
| RRECOM | Recycling and REcovery from COmposite Materials | |
| RRfW | Resource Recovery from Waste programme | |
| RRI | Responsible Research and Innovation | |
| RRIM | Reinforced Reaction Injection Moulding | |
| RRM | Renewable Raw Material | |
| rROP | radical ring-opening polymerization | |
| rROPISA | radical ring-opening polymerization induced self-assembly | |
| RRS | Resonance Raman Scattering (chemical spectroscopy) | |
| RRS | Royal Research Ship | |
| RRVE | Random Representative Volume Element | |
| RRY | Resin Removal Yield | |
| RS | Research Studentships | |
| RS | Residual Strength | |
| RS | Royal Society | London - United Kingdom |
| RSA | Random Sequential Adsorption | |
| RSA | Reptile Search Algorithm (IRSA) | |
| RSB | Reusable Silicone Bag | |
| RSCRF | Research Chairs and Senior Research Fellowships | Royal Academy of Engineering |
| RSL | Reference Service Life | |
| RSO | Research Support Office | University of Edinburgh |
| RSP | Rapid Solidification Processing | |
| RSPO | Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil | ?sustainable? |
| RSSB | Rail Safety and Standards Board | |
| RST | Resin Spray Transfer | Quickstep |
| RSTE | Revised Stress Transfer Efficiency | |
| RSTFT | Re-assigned Short-Time Fourier Transform | |
| RT | Rapid Tooling | |
| RT | Room Temperature | |
| RTA | Rapid Thermal Annealing | |
| RTAPI | Real-time automated ply inspection | |
| RTC | Reconfigurable Tooling Concept | BAE Systems/EPSRC FLAVIIR project |
| RTCA | Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics | |
| RTD | Research and Technological Development | |
| RTD | Room Temperature Dry | |
| RTFO | Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation | |
| RTI | Radical Thermal Initiators | |
| RTI | Reflectance Transformation Imaging | |
| RTI | Relative Thermal Index | |
| RTI | Resin Transfer Injection | GB patent GB2316036 |
| RTISAD | Reflectance Transformation Imaging System for Ancient Documentary Artefacts | |
| RTL | Reinforced Thermoplastic Laminate | |
| RTM | Resin Transfer Moulding | |
| RTO | Research and Technology Organisation | |
| RTP | Reinforced Thermoplastic Pipes | |
| RTR | Routes to Registration | Science Council |
| RTS | Rapid Transfer System | |
| RTSG | Research Training Support Grant | |
| RTU | Remote Titration Unit | |
| RTV | Room Temperature Vulcanising | |
| RTVEMVS | Real-Time Vehicle Emissions Modeling and Visualization System | |
| RTVP | Rotorcraft Technology Validation Programme | |
| RT-PCR | Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction | |
| RUC | Representative Unit Cell | |
| RUL | Remaining Useful Life | |
| RUM | Random Utility Maximisation | |
| RUS_CASIA | Russia and Central Asia | |
| RUSTI | Research Unit in Surfaces, Transforms and Interfaces | Daresbury Laboratory |
| RVB | Reusable vacuum Bag | Alan Harper Composites |
| RVC | Reticulated Vitreous Carbon (foam) | ERG Aerospace Duocel®/Oakland CA Goodfellow/Huntingdon Matmatch/Munich Ultramet/Pacoima CA |
| RVE | Representative Volume Element | |
| RVI | Remote Visual Inspection | |
| RVIA | Recreational Vehicle Industry Association | Reston VA - United States of America |
| RVRC | ReMake Value retention Centre | |
| RWAT | Rubber Wheel Abrasion Tests | |
| RWBLC | Rubber-Wood-Bamboo Laminated Composite |