// A
var ABS = 'American Bureau of Shipping';
var ACFM = 'Alternating Current Field Measurement';
var ACPD = 'Alternating Current Potential Drop';
var ACSM = 'Alternating Current Stress Measurement';
var ADS = 'Atmospheric Diving Suit';
var ASME = 'American Society of Mechanical Engineers';
var ASNT = 'American Society of Non-Destructive Testing';
var ASTM = 'American Society for Testing and Materials';
var ATI = 'Automated Thread Inspection';

//B
var BINDT = 'British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing';
var ButterflyPlot = 'ACFMs characteristic visual reprisentation of a surface breaking defect produced from the relative (<span class="GlossaryEntry" onMouseOver="toolTip(Bx)" onMouseOut="toolTip()">Bx</span>) and (<span class="GlossaryEntry" onMouseOver="toolTip(By)" onMouseOut="toolTip()">By</span>) values.';
var BV = 'Bureau Veritas'
var Bx = 'The X component of the magnetic field, perpendicular to the current and parallel to the metal surface.';
var By = 'The Y component of the magnetic field, parallel to the input current.';
var Bz = 'The Z component of the magnetic field, perpendicular to the metal surface.';
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//C
var CalibrationSlot = 'Calibration on artificial defects is known to be prone to error for a number of reasons :<ol><li>There is increased scope for operator error.</li><li>The calibration piece is not representative:<ul><li>A slot does not behave electrically like a crack.</li><li>The slot is unlikely to be in material representative of the crack location (i.e. Parent plate, HAZ, Weld)</li><li>The slot is not generally in a geometry representative of the crack location.</li></ul><li>Calibration can only be valid for the defect length used because crack length influences the depth signal.</li></ol>';
var COFREND = 'Confédération Française pour les Essais Non Destructifs';
var CSWIP = 'Certification Scheme for Welding & Inspection Personnel';

//D
var DNV = 'Det Norske Veritas';
var DSV = 'Dive Support Vessel';

//E
var EDM = 'Electro-Discharge Machined';

//F
var FPSO = 'Floating Production Storage & Offshore loading';

//G
var GCC = 'Gauge Corner Cracking';

//H
var HAZ = 'Heat Affected Zone'
var HSE = 'Health & Safety Executive';

//I
var IP = 'Ingress Protection rating, used to specify the environmental protection of electrical equipment.'
var IP54 = 'Protected against dust limited ingress (no harmful deposit). Protected from water sprayed from all directions; limited entrance allowed.'
var IRATA = 'Industrial Rope Access Trade Association';
var IRM = 'Inspection, Repair and Maintenance';

//J
var JIP = 'Joint Industry Project';

//K


//L
var Ligament = 'The perpendicular distance between the surface of a material and the start of a sub-surface defect.';

//M
var MPI = 'Magnetic Particle Inspection';
var MT = 'Magnetic Testing';

//N
var NDE = 'Non-Destructive Evaluation';
var NDT = 'Non-Destructive Testing';

//O


//P
var PickandPlace = 'Pick & Place : A type of probe deployment. A probe is deployed to a position and a single data set acquired before the probe is moved to an adjacent location and the process repeated.'
var POD = 'Probability Of Detection : Used in NDT as a measure of expected accuracy of an NDT technique when attempting to detect defects of a specified dimension.';
var PT = 'Penetrant Testing';

//Q


//R
var RCF = 'Rolling Contact Fatigue';
var ROV = 'Remotely Operated Vehicle';


//S
var SkinDepth = 'An alternating current passing through a conductor is forced to flow in a thin layer on the outer surface. The thickness of the current-carrying layer, the so-called &quot;skin-depth&quot;, &#948;, is given by: </p> <p align=center><br> &#948;=(&#960; , &#963; , &#956;<span class="SubScript"><em>r</em></span> , &#956;<span class="SubScript">&#959;</span> , <em>f</em>)<span class="SuperScript">-1/2</span></p> <p>where &#963; is the electrical conductivity of the material, &#956;<span class="SubScript"><em>r</em></span> is its relative magnetic permeability, &#956;<span class="SubScript">&#959;</span> is the permeability of free space, and <em>f</em> is the frequency of the applied alternating current. <br> Materials of high permeability or conductivity thus have relatively small skin depths. At a frequency of about 5 kHz, for example, ferromagnetic mild steel has a skin depth of order 0.1 mm, high conductivity materials such as aluminium, tungsten and zinc have skin depths of 1-2 mm, and low conductivity metals such as titanium, stainless steel and Inconel have skin depths of 5-8mm.';
var SRG = 'Stress Relief Groove';

//T
var tpi = 'Teeth per Inch';
var TransitionRegion = '';
var TWI = 'The Welding Institute';

//U
var UKAS = 'United Kingdom Accreditation Service';
var UKOOA = 'United Kingdom Offshore Operators Association';

//V


//X

//Y


//Z