AFRP

English

Noun

AFRP (usually uncountable, plural AFRPs)

1. (engineering) Initialism of aramid-fiber/fibre-reinforced plastic/polymer.
   • 2007, Transportation Safety Board of Canada, “1.5.7 Rudder Modification Status”, in Aviation Investigation Report A05F0047, Loss of Rudder in Flight, Air Transat Airbus A310-308 C-GPAT, Miami, Florida, 90 nm S, 06 March 2005‎^[1], archived from the original on 1 May 2021, page 10:

     The following is the modification status of the occurrence rudder: [...] Modification 5844 (Glass Intermediate Layer). The occurrence rudder was a post-modification 5844 (Service Bulletin [SB] A310-55-2012) design, which incorporated a GFRP layer between the honeycomb and the CFRP skin, rather than aramid fibre–reinforced plastic (AFRP) as used in ^[sic] earlier design.

Hypernyms

• FRP

Coordinate terms

• CFRP
• GFRP

Anagrams

• frap