Abbreviations are widely used to say a phrase of words in a smaller word. The following are the most commonly used abbreviations in civil engineering.
- AADT – Average Anual Daily Traffic
- AASHTO – American Association of State highway and Transport officials
- ACI – American Concrete Institute
- ASCE – American Society of Civil Engineers
- ASTM – American Society of Testing and Materials
- AAC blocks – Autoclaved Aerated Concrete Blocks
- AE – Assistant Engineer
- AAE – Additional Assistant Engineer
- BBCC – Brick Bat Cement Concrete
- BBLC – Brick Bat Lime Concrete
- BBD method – Benkelman Beam Deflection method
- BIM – Building Information Modelling
- BIS – Bureau of Indian Standards
- BM – Bench Mark
- BM – Bending Moment
- BOD – Biochemical Oxygen Demand
- BOT – Build Operate Transfer
- BS – Back sight
- CAD – Computer Aided Design
- CAPO test – Cut And Pull Out test
- CBR test – California Bearing Ratio Test
- CPM – Critical Path Method
- CPWD – Centre Public Works Department
- CRRI – Central Road Research Institute of India
- CSU – Cumulative Standard Axles
- CTD – Cold Twisted Deformed bars
- CUMEC – Cubic Metre Per Second
- CUSEC – Cubic Foot/Feet Per Second
- DPC – Damp Proof Course
- DPR – Detailed Project Report
- DTP – Draft , Tender , Paper
- EMD – Earnest Money Deposit
- FAR – Floor Area Ratio
- FEM – Finite Element Method
- FS – Fore sight
- FSI – Floor Space Index
- FWD – Falling Weight Deflectometer
- ICAO – International Civil Aviation Organization
- IPS flooring – Indian Patent stone flooring
- ICI – Indian concrete Institute
- ICJ – Indian concrete Journal
- IRC – Indian Road Congress
- JCB – Joseph Cyril Bamford
- GIS – Geographic Information system
- GPS – Global Positioning System
- GTS – Great Trigonometric Survey
- HGL – Hydraulic Gradient Line
- HYSD – High Yield strength deformed bars
- MB – Measurement Book
- MCB – Miniature Circuit Breaker
- MDR – Major District Road
- MEP – Mechanical Electrical Plumbing
- MORTH – Ministry of Road Transport and Highway (India)
- MSL – Mean Sea Level
- NAVIC – NAVigation with Indian Constellation
- NDT – Non Destructive Testing
- NIT – Notice inviting tender
- ODR – Other District Road
- OPC – Ordinary Portland Cement
- PCC – Plain Cement Concrete
- PPC – Portland Pozzolana Cement
- PERT – Programme Evaluation and Review Technique
- PWD – Public Works Department
- RB – Reduced Bearing (Also known as Quadrant Bearing)
- RCC – Reinforced cement concrete
- RL – Reduced Level
- RMC – Ready Mix Concrete
- SF – Shear Force
- SOR – Schedule Of Rate
- TEL – Total Energy Line
- TMT – Thermo mechanically treated bars
- WCB – Whole circle bearing
Abbreviations used in Earthquake Engineering
- DBE – Design Basic Earthquake
- MCR – Maximum Consider Earthquake
- OMRF – Ordinary RC Moment Resisting Frame
- SMRF – Special RC Moment Resisting Frame
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