| T |
Explanation |
Location/Reference/Context as appropriate |
| -T |
suffix indicating T-group rubbers |
polymer chain contains C, O and S (eg OT and EOT) |
| t | Time | |
| T |
Talc |
Designation used in recycle marks for polymers |
| TA |
Taper Angle | |
| TA |
Technology Assessments | |
| TA |
Terrestrial Acidification | |
| TA |
Type approval | |
| TAB |
Tetra Amino Biphenyl | |
| TAF | Tasking Amendment Form | |
| TAIR |
The Arabidopsis Information Resource | |
| TAKT time |
the rate at which a finished product needs to be completed to meet customer demand. |
German word for orchestral conductir's baton |
| TAL | Tension-After-Lightning | |
| TALC |
Thin Aperture Light Collector |
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| TAMI |
Tomographic Acoustic Micro Imaging |
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| TAN |
Total Ammonia Nitrogen |
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| TANGO |
Technology Application of Near term [aerospace] Goals & Objectives |
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| TAP |
Terrestrial Acidification Potential |
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| TAP |
2,3,5,6-Tetra Amino Pyridine |
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| TAPAS |
Thermoplastic Affordable Primary Aircraft Structure innovation program |
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| TAPAS |
ThermoplAstic Process for Automotive Structures |
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| TAQA |
Training Assessment and Quality Assurance |
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| TARRC |
Tun Abdul Razak Research Centre |
Brickendonbury - England |
| TARP |
Tow-Aligned Resin Pockets |
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| TAS |
Towed Array Sonar |
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| TAVieDA | Rapidly Installable and Durable Aircraft Door System Using the Versatility of a Tolerance-Compensating Seal and Automated Assembly | Collaborative project between Fraunhofer IWU, Fraunhofer LBF, Airbus Helicopters and Trelleborg |
| t-BA | tertiary- butyl acrylate | |
| TBAF | tetra-n-butylammonium fluoride | |
| TBC | tert-butyl catechol | |
| TBC | Thermal Barrier Coatings | |
| TBC | Tri Butyl Citrate plasticiser | |
| TBD | 1,5,7-triazabicyclo 4.4.0 dec-5-ene | |
| TBET |
Tone Burst Eddy-current Thermography | |
| TBM | Tunnel Boring Machine | |
| TBP | t-butyl peroxy benzoate |
free-radical initiator |
| TBP | tributyl phosphite | |
| TBPB | t-butyl peroxy benzonate | |
| TBR | Thermally Bonded Roving | |
| TBSM | tributyl silyl methacrylate
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| t-BUP4 | 1-tert-butyl-4,4,4-tris(dimethylamino)-2,2-bis[tris(dimethylamino)-phophoranylidenamino]-2Λ5,Λ5-catenadi(phosphazene
| |
| TC | Technical Committee | |
| TC | Trans Crystallinity | |
| TC | TriethylCitrate plasticiser | |
| TCA | Termite Construction Algorithm | |
| TCA | Trade and Co-operation Agreement | EU-UK |
| TCA | TriCarboxylicAcid | |
| TCD | Teaching Company Directorate | |
| TCE | Transparent Conducting Electrodes | |
| TCE | Transport Chain Elements | |
| TCEF | Tamar Estuaries Consultative Forum | |
| TCF | Transparent Conductive Films | |
| TCFD |
Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures | |
| TCL | Trans Crystalline Layer | |
| TCMS | Tri Chloro Methyl Silane | |
| TCN | Temporal Convolutional Networks | |
| TCO |
Total Cost of Ownership |
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| TCO |
Transparent Conducting Oxides |
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| TCP |
Thermoplastic Composite Pipe |
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| TCQ+M |
Time, Cost, Quality and Management |
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| TCR |
Thermal Contact Resistance |
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| TCS |
Teaching Company Schemes |
TCS has been succeeded by Knowledge Transfer Partnerships, see KTP |
| TCT |
Tidal Current Turbine |
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| Td |
Degradation temperature |
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| TD |
Technology Demonstration |
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| TDC |
Titanocene DiChloride |
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| TDERR |
Total Damage Energy Release Rate |
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| TDG |
Transport of Dangerous Goods | |
| TDI |
Toluene Di Isocyanate |
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| TDIC |
Toluene-2,4-DiIsoCyanate |
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| TDM |
Time Division Multiplexing |
Signal processing for optical fibre sensors |
| TDM |
Titanium-derived mixture |
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| TDOA |
Time Difference Of Arrival |
Acoustic Emission Source Location |
| TDOV |
Transgender Day of Visibility |
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| TDP |
Technology Demonstration Programme |
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| TDP |
4,4'-thiodiphenol |
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| TDPA |
Totally Degradable Plastic Additives |
EPI Environmental Technologies Inc |
| TDR |
Time Dependent Reliability |
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| TDR |
Time Domain Reflectometry |
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| TDRI |
Technology Development Research Initiative |
BBSRC |
| TDSE |
Time Domain Spectral Element |
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| TDT |
Thermal Disengagement Technology |
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| TDV |
Thermoplastic Dynamic Vulcanisate |
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| TE |
TransEsterification |
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| TEA |
Techno-Economic Analysis |
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| TEA |
Tri Ethanol Amine |
plasticiser |
| TEaas |
Test Environment as a Service |
Cloud computing |
| TEAM |
Textile Engineering and Materials Research Group |
De Montfort University |
| t-EBSD |
Transmission EBSD |
Keller and Geiss, 2012 |
| TEC |
Tri Ethyl Citrate plasticiser |
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| TECABS |
Technologies for Carbon Fibre Reinforced Modular Automotive Body Structures |
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| TED |
Thermal Extraction Desorption (in GC-MS) |
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| TEEB |
The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity |
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| TEEE |
Thermoplastic ester- and ether-elastomers |
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| TEG |
Thermo- or Tribo- Electric Generators |
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| TEGDME |
Tetra Ethylene Glycol Di Methyl Ether |
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| TEM |
Transmission Electron Microscope |
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| TEMPO |
2,2,6,6-TEtra Methyl Piperidine-1-Oxy radical |
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| TENG |
TriboElectric NanoGenerators | |
| TEOS |
Tetra EthOxy Silane |
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| TEOS |
Tetra EthylOrtho Silicate |
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| TEP | triethyl phosphite | |
| TEPPFA |
The European Plastic Pipes and Fittings Association |
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| TERF |
Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist |
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| TESARREC |
Tool for techno-Economic and Sustainability Analysis of Resource Recovery Engineering solutions for Circular renewable and bio economy |
University of Surrey Trademark UK00003321198, 2018. |
| TET |
Terrestrial Ecotoxicity |
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| TETP |
Terrestrial Ecotoxicity Potential (EICF) |
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| TEXFLAX |
Processing/cultivation of short fibre flax for high value textile end uses |
LINK CIMNFC GR/R64261/01 LK0809, January 2002-June 2005 |
| TexGen |
Textile composites modelling software |
University of Nottingham |
| Tf |
Fictive Temperature for metallic glasses |
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| TFA |
Transformation Field Analysis |
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| TFA |
Tri Fluoroacetic Acid/Anhydride |
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| Tfc |
Critical Fictive Temperature for metallic glasses |
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| TFD |
Tooling Face Down |
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| TFE |
Textile Flagships for Europe |
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| TFF |
Tailorable Feedstock and Forming |
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| TFFEE |
Technical fossil fuel energy efficiency |
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| TFG |
Techical File Generator |
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| TFI | Transforming Foundation Industries | UKRI |
| TFM |
Total Focussing Method |
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| TFOS |
Trideca Fluoro-1,1,2,2-tetrahydroxy Octyl-1-trichloro Silane |
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| TFP |
3,3,3-Tri Fluoropropanoyl chloride |
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| TFP |
Tailored Fibre Placement |
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| TFP |
Thermal Flow Permeametry |
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| TFPM |
Tailored Fibre Placement Machine |
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| TFR |
Time Frequency Representation | |
| TFT |
Thin Film Transistor |
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| TFU |
Tooling Face Up |
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| Tg |
Glass transition temperature |
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| TGA |
ThermoGravimetric Analysis (weight loss vs temperature) |
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| TGDDM |
Tetra Glycidyl-4,4'-Diamino Diphenyl Methane |
Monomer for epoxy resin |
| TGDDS |
Tetra Glycidyl-4,4'-Diamino Diphenyl Sulphone |
Monomer for epoxy resin |
| TGMDA |
Tetra Glycidyl Methylene Di Aniline |
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| TGMVE | tri(ethylene glycol) methyl vinyl ether | |
| TGO |
Thermally Grown Oxide |
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| TGU |
Turbine Generator Unit |
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| TH |
Thymol |
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| THB |
Transient Hot Bridge |
for thermal conductivity measurements |
| THCL | ε-thionocaprolactone | |
| THDL | decathionolactone | |
| ThermoformNet |
Enhancing thermoplastic composites | EPSRC Network |
| ThermoSonics | Ultrasound Stimulated Thermography | |
| THF | TetraHydroFuran | |
| THP | TetraHydroPyran | |
| THR | Total Heat Release | |
| THz | TeraHertz |
a million million cycles per second |
| TIB | thermal-insulated boundary | |
| TIC | Testing, Inspection and Certification | |
| TIDE | Technology Innovation for Defence-platform Energy Efficiency |
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| TIG | Tungsten Inert Gas welding | |
| TIGER |
Tidal Stream Industry Energiser Project |
Anglo-French interReg project |
| TIGERS |
The Inclusion Group for Equity in Research in STEMM |
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| TiGr |
Titanium-Graphite fibre metal laminates |
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| TIL | Thermomyces lanuginosus lipase | |
| TILLING |
Targetting Induced Local Lesions IN Genomes |
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| TIM | Thermal Impedance Measurement | |
| TIM | Towards an Industrialised single point Mooring system |
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| TIMon |
Toray Integrated Moulding System |
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| TINA |
There Is No Alternative | Margaret Thatcher on neoliberal globalisation |
| TIPS |
Theory of Inventive Problem Solving |
loose translation of Teorija Reshenija Izobretatel'skih Zadach (TRIZ) |
| TIPS |
Thermally Induced Phase Separation |
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| TIPS |
Trust, Identity, Privacy and Security |
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| TIRF |
Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence microscopy |
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| TKD |
Transmission Kikuchi Diffraction (in SEM) |
Trimby, 2012 |
| TKP |
Tamarind Kernel Powder |
Sizing material for jute |
| TLD | thionolactide | |
| TLP |
Tension Leg Platform |
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| TLP |
Thick Laminate Prepreg |
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| TLR |
TransLaminar Reinforced composite |
laminate with ≤5v/o reinforcement in a translaminar or through-thickness direction |
| Tm |
Crystalline melting point/temperature range |
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| TMA |
Thermo-mechanical analysis |
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| T-MAG |
Casting process for super lightweight magnesium alloys |
CSIRO Australia |
| TMBQ | trimethyl-locked benzoquinone | |
| TMC | Thick Moulding Compound | |
| TMC | Titanium Matrix Composites | |
| TMC | trimethylene carbonate | |
| TMD |
Tuned Mass Dampers |
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| TMDC |
Transition Metal DiChalcogenides |
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| TMDSC |
Temperature Modulated Differential Scanning Calorometry |
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| TMETC |
TATA Motors European Technical Centre |
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| TMMC |
Titanium Metal Matrix Composites |
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| TMP |
ThermoMechanical Pulp(ing) |
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| TMP | trimethyl phosphite | |
| TMPTA | trimethylol propane triacrylate | |
| TMPTGE | trimethylol propane triglycidyl ether | |
| TMST |
Trans Manche Super Trains |
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| TN |
True Negative |
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| TNA |
Training Needs Analysis |
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| TNE |
Trans-National Education |
flying faculty |
| TNO |
True Negative number of Objects |
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| TO | Topology Optimisation | |
| TOA |
Time Of Arrival |
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| TOAST |
ThermOplast Additive Manufacturing STrukturen |
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| TOCN |
TEMPO-Oxidised Cellulosic NanoFibres |
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| TOCNF |
TEMPO-Oxidised Cellulose NanoFibres |
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| TOD |
Threshold of Detectability |
FAR section 23.573 |
| TODIM |
TOmada de Decisao Interativa Multicriterio |
Multicriteria Interactive Decision Making (Google translation from Galician!) |
| TOF |
Time of Flight |
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| TOFD |
Time of Flight Diffraction |
Ultrasonic NDT |
| TOFT |
Time of Flight Tomography |
Terahertz NDT |
| TOIL |
Time Off In Lieu |
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| ToM |
Theory of Mind | |
| TOPSIS |
Technique for Order [of] Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution |
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| TOR |
Target Of Rampamycin |
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| TOSCAA |
Thermoplastic Overmoulding of Structural Composites for Automotive Applications |
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| TOX |
Total Halogen Content |
ISO14044:2006(E) |
| Tp |
Processing temperature |
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| TP |
Thermoporometry | |
| TP |
True Positive |
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| TPA |
TerePhthalicAcid |
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| TPA |
Thermoelastic Phase Analysis |
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| TPA |
Thermoplastic polyamide elastomer |
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| TPC |
Talent Panel College |
UKRI |
| TPC |
Thermo Plastic Composites |
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| TPC |
Thermoplastic copolyester elastomer |
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| TPCL |
ThermoPlastic Consolidated Laminate |
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| TPCR |
ThermoPlastic Composite Riser |
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| TPE |
ThermoPlastic Elastomer |
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| TPF |
ThermoPlastic Flowforming |
LRM Industries LLC |
| (TP)-FML |
(Thermoplastic) Fibre Metal Laminate |
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| TPIP |
ThermoPlastic In situ Polymerisation | |
| TPLC |
Total Product Life Cycle | |
| TPLHD |
Translational Propagation Algorithm for Latin Hypercube Design |
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| TPMS |
Triply Periodic Minimal Surface | |
| TPNR |
ThermoPlastic Natural Rubber |
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| TPO |
Temperature Programmed Oxidation |
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| TPO |
Thermoplastic polyolefin elastomer |
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| TPO |
True Positive number of Objects |
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| TPP |
Third Party Providers |
UK banking sector |
| TPP |
Trans Pacific Partnership |
a trade and investment agreement designed to drive growth and create jobs, or corporate power grabs ? |
| TPP |
TriPhenyl Phosphite |
Increases molecular weight of PLA through the chain extension in melt processing |
| TPR |
Temperature Programmed Reduction |
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| TPRC |
Thermoplastic Composites Research Centre |
University of Twente in The Netherlands |
| TPUD |
ThermoPlastic UniDirectional |
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| T-preg |
T-preg™ HTD (thermally conductive, electrically insulating prepreg) |
Laird Technologies |
| TPS |
Thermal Protection System |
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| TPS |
Thermoplastic starch |
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| TPS |
Thermoplastic styrenic elastomer |
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| TPS |
Transient Phase Source |
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| TPT |
Technology Pull-Through programme |
National Composites Centre transitional research in action |
| TPU |
Thermoplastic PolyUrethane |
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| TPV |
Thermoplastic rubber vulcanisates |
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| TPV |
Third Party Verification | |
| TPX |
Poly (methyl pentene) |
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| TPZ |
Unclassified thermoplastic elastomer |
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| TQM | Total Quality Management | |
| TQP | Techical Qualification Program | |
| TR&I | Trusted Research and Innovation | |
| TRA |
Transport and Research Arena | |
| TRACI |
Tool for Reduction and Assessment of Chemicals and other environmental Impacts |
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| TRAM |
Trends in Advanced Machining, Manufacturing and Materials conference |
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| TRAP | Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers | |
| TRC | Textile Reinforced Concrete | |
| TRE | Trusted Research Environments | |
| TREC |
Trans-Mediterranean Renewable Energy Cooperation |
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| TREE |
Training Researchers in Entrepreneurial Engagement |
University of Bristol |
| TRFA |
Thermoset Resin Formulators Association |
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| TRILT |
Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching |
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| TRIP | TRansformation Induced Plasticity | |
| TRIP | Transport Research and Innovation Portal | |
| TRIR | Time Resolved IR Radiometry | |
| TRIR | [Safety] Total Recordable Incident Rate | |
| TRIZ |
Teorija Reshenija Izobretatel'skih Zadach |
loosely translates as Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TIPS) |
| TRL |
Technology Readiness Levels |
defined at page 13 |
| TRL |
Transmit Receive Longitudinal |
Ultrasonic twin crystal probes which generate angled longitudinal waves |
| TRM |
Technology Road Mapping |
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| TRM |
Textile-Reinforced Mortar |
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| TROC |
TRuncated OCtahedron |
Lauge Fuglsang Nielsen, Composite Materials, Springer, 2005. |
| T-RTM |
Thermoplastic Resin Transfer Moulding |
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| TRU |
Transport Refrigeration Units |
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| TRUST |
Transition Reliable Unitized STructure |
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| TS |
Trading Schemes |
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| TSA |
Thermoelastic Stress Analysis (thermal NDT) |
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| TSB |
Technology Strategy Board |
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| TSBP |
Time Slot Between Pulses |
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| TSC |
Textile Structural Composites |
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| TSC |
ThermoSet Composites |
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| TSCA | Toxic Substances Control Act |
US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) |
| TSE |
Twin Screw Extruder |
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| TSEC |
Towards a Sustainable Energy Economy |
NERC initiative |
| TSR |
Thermographic Signal Reconstruction |
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| TSR |
Tip-Speed Ratios |
|
| TSTMP |
TriSodiumTriMetaPhosphate |
Crosslinking agent for starch |
| TT |
Thermographic Testing | |
| TTB |
Towed Transmitter Body |
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| TTBOOK |
To The Best of our Knowledge | |
| TTED |
Time to Enter Dwell |
|
| TTI |
Time-Temperature Indicator |
|
| TTIP |
Transatlantic Trade & Investment Partnership |
a trade and investment agreement designed to drive growth and create jobs, or transfer of power from the people to corporations rather than governments ? |
| TTR |
Through-Thickness Reinforcement |
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| TTR |
Top Tensioned Riser |
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| TTS |
Time - Temperature - Superposition |
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| TTSE |
Two-Tiered Sustainability Equilibria |
|
| TTSF |
Time-Temperature Shift Factors |
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| TTSP |
Time-Temperature Superposition Principle |
|
| TTSSP |
Time-Temperature-Stress Superposition Principle |
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| TTT |
Time-Temperature-Transformation |
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| TÜBITAK |
The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye | |
| TUFF |
Tailored Universal Feedstock for Forming |
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| TUFS |
Technology Upgradation Fund Scheme |
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| TUNA |
Tunneling Atomic Force Microscopy |
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| TUPE |
Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 |
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| TUVR |
Total UltraViolet Radiation/Radiometer |
|
| TWF |
Triaxially Woven Fabric |
|
| TWI |
The Welding Institute (now trading as TWI) |
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| TWiC |
Tow Width Control |
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| TWIP |
TWinning Induced Plasticity |
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| TWRI |
Thermal-Wave Radar Imaging |
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| TZP |
Tetragonal Zirconia Polycrystals |
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