Abbreviation for "Dutch Twilled Weave". Ductility The ability of a material to deform plastically without fracturing, being measured by elongation or reduction of area in a tensile test, or by other means.
DTW is intended to be a Voice in -> Pictures + Text out program written in java using Sphinx from CMU. This is intended to be useful to people who have good oral/visual literacy skills but poor written literacy skills.