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Fazil Erdogan

Fazil Erdoğan (1925–2015) was a Turkish-American engineering scientist at Lehigh University and a world-leading expert on fracture mechanics, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997.

Fazıl Erdoğan

Fazıl Erdoğan (1925–2015) was a Turkish-born American mechanical engineer at Lehigh University, a foremost expert in fracture mechanics who co-authored the Paris–Erdoğan fatigue crack growth law.

Fazle Hussain

Fazle Hussain is a fluid dynamicist known for turbulence and vortex dynamics, professor at Texas Tech University since 2013 after four decades at the University of Houston.

Fazlur Khan

Fazlur Rahman Khan (ফজলুর রহমান খান) was a Bangladeshi-American structural engineer, called the father of tubular designs, whose systems made supertall skyscrapers like Chicago's Sears Tower economical.

Fazlur Rahman Khan (ফজলুর রহমান খান)

Fazlur Rahman Khan (ফজলুর রহমান খান, 1929–1982) was a Bangladeshi-American structural engineer known as the father of tubular design, who engineered Chicago's Sears Tower and John Hancock Center.

FB Beryl

The FB Beryl (Beryl wz.96) is a Polish 5.56×45mm NATO assault rifle made by Fabryka Broni in Radom, the standard service rifle of the Polish Army.

FB Vis

The FB Vis, also known as the Radom pistol or Pistolet wz. 35 Vis, is a Polish 9 mm service pistol produced in Radom from 1936.

FBFC Dessel

FBFC International was a Framatome-owned nuclear fuel fabrication plant in Dessel, Belgium, making uranium and MOX fuel assemblies from 1973 until 2015; the site was fully dismantled by 2022.

FBI Index

The FBI Index, also called the Index List, is the FBI's system of name indexes and target lists connecting people and organizations to FBI case files.

FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives

The FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, also known as the FBI Most Wanted List, is an FBI publicity program started in 1950 that publicizes ten dangerous fugitives.

FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, 2000s

The FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, 2000s covers fugitives placed on the FBI's flagship wanted list between 2000 and 2009, with emphasis on violent crime and terrorism.

FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, 2010s

The FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, 2010s covers the seventh decade of the FBI's publicity program, which named ten fugitives at a time and passed 500 additions in 2013.

FBTR

The Fast Breeder Test Reactor (FBTR) is India's first fast breeder reactor, a 40 MWt sodium-cooled fast reactor at Kalpakkam that attained criticality in 1985 and tests fuels for India's fast reactor program.

FC-BGA

FC-BGA, or flip chip ball grid array, is a semiconductor package that connects a face-down die to an organic substrate for CPUs, GPUs, and AI accelerators.

FC2 (portal)

FC2 is a portal of free web services including blogging, video, and live streaming, run by a Las Vegas company founded in 1999 and popular mainly in Japan.

FCHL19

FCHL19 is an atom-centered molecular representation for quantum machine learning, introduced in 2019 as a faster revision of FCHL18, encoding atomic environments as discretized two- and three-body distributions.

FCOS

FCOS (Fully Convolutional One-Stage Object Detection) is an anchor-free object detector treating detection as per-pixel prediction, proposed by Zhi Tian, Chunhua Shen, Hao Chen, and Tong He at ICCV 2019.

FD-Composites ArrowCopter

The FD-Composites ArrowCopter, also known as Arrow Copter, is an Austrian tandem two-seat autogyro made by FD-Composites of Zeillern, with a carbon fiber monocoque airframe and a turbocharged Rotax 914 pusher engine.

FDIR

FDIR (Fault Detection, Isolation and Recovery) is the onboard or ground function in spacecraft and aircraft that detects faults, isolates their cause, and reconfigures systems so the mission continues safely.

FDT (Field Device Tool)

FDT (Field Device Tool) is a standardized software interface for industrial automation, defined by IEC 62453, that configures and diagnoses field devices from any manufacturer.

FDX (GlobalFoundries)

FDX is GlobalFoundries' family of fully depleted silicon-on-insulator process technologies, built on planar transistors for low-power edge and automotive chips, from 22FDX in 2015 to the 7nm-class FDX Fusion announced in 2026.

Fe-Mn-Si shape memory alloy

Fe-Mn-Si shape memory alloy is an iron-based alloy that recovers its shape when heated. Discovered in 1982, it costs far less than Ni-Ti and is used in civil engineering.

Fe-N-C cathode for PEM fuel cells

An Fe-N-C cathode is a proton exchange membrane fuel cell electrode whose iron-nitrogen-carbon catalyst, with single iron atoms on nitrogen sites, replaces platinum for oxygen reduction.

Feathers (framework)

Feathers, also known as FeathersJS, is a lightweight open framework for Node.js, started in 2013, that builds REST and websocket APIs around a uniform service interface rather than routes and controllers.

Feature (machine learning)

A feature in machine learning is an input variable, also called a dimension, used to generate predictions, with feature engineering transforming raw data into useful form.

Feature engineering

Feature engineering is the use of domain knowledge to create features, the input variables machine learning algorithms work on, aiming for a minimal subset that preserves predictive performance.

Feature learning

Feature learning, also called representation learning, is the set of machine learning methods in which a system automatically discovers data representations that make tasks like classification easier.

Feature matching (computer vision)

Feature matching is the computer vision method that establishes correspondences between detected image features across images, feeding object recognition, structure from motion, SLAM, and visual localization.

Feature mode decomposition

Feature mode decomposition (FMD) is an adaptive signal decomposition method, introduced in 2022, that splits vibration signals into modes with distinct center frequencies for machinery fault diagnosis.

Feature phone

A feature phone, also known as a dumb phone, is a mobile phone that is not a smartphone, offering calling, texting, and built-in functions rather than full apps.