Widely Used Abbreviations In Civil Engineering

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.

1. AADT – Average Anual Daily Traffic
2. AASHTO – American Association of State highway and Transport officials
3. ACI – American Concrete Institute
4. ASCE – American Society of Civil Engineers
5. ASTM – American Society of Testing and Materials
6. AAC blocks – Autoclaved Aerated Concrete Blocks
7. AE – Assistant Engineer
8. AAE – Additional Assistant Engineer
9. BBCC – Brick Bat Cement Concrete
10. BBLC – Brick Bat Lime Concrete
11. BBD method – Benkelman Beam Deflection method
12. BIM – Building Information Modelling
13. BIS – Bureau of Indian Standards
14. BM – Bench Mark
15. BM – Bending Moment
16. BOD – Biochemical Oxygen Demand
17. BOT – Build Operate Transfer
18. BS – Back sight
19. CAD – Computer Aided Design
20. CAPO test – Cut And Pull Out test
21. CBR test – California Bearing Ratio Test
22. CPM – Critical Path Method
23. CPWD – Centre Public Works Department
24. CRRI – Central Road Research Institute of India
25. CSU – Cumulative Standard Axles
26. CTD – Cold Twisted Deformed bars
27. CUMEC – Cubic Metre Per Second
28. CUSEC – Cubic Foot/Feet Per Second
29. DPC – Damp Proof Course
30. DPR – Detailed Project Report
31. DTP – Draft , Tender , Paper
32. EMD – Earnest Money Deposit
33. FAR – Floor Area Ratio
34. FEM – Finite Element Method
35. FS – Fore sight
36. FSI – Floor Space Index
37. FWD – Falling Weight Deflectometer
38. ICAO – International Civil Aviation Organization
39. IPS flooring – Indian Patent stone flooring
40. ICI – Indian concrete Institute
41. ICJ – Indian concrete Journal
42. IRC – Indian Road Congress
43. JCB – Joseph Cyril Bamford
44. GIS – Geographic Information system
45. GPS – Global Positioning System
46. GTS – Great Trigonometric Survey
47. HGL – Hydraulic Gradient Line
48. HYSD – High Yield strength deformed bars
49. MB – Measurement Book
50. MCB – Miniature Circuit Breaker
51. MDR – Major District Road
52. MEP – Mechanical Electrical Plumbing
53. MORTH – Ministry of Road Transport and Highway (India)
54. MSL – Mean Sea Level
55. NAVIC – NAVigation with Indian Constellation
56. NDT – Non Destructive Testing
57. NIT – Notice inviting tender
58. ODR – Other District Road
59. OPC – Ordinary Portland Cement
60. PCC – Plain Cement Concrete
61. PPC – Portland Pozzolana Cement
62. PERT – Programme Evaluation and Review Technique
63. PWD – Public Works Department
64. RB – Reduced Bearing (Also known as Quadrant Bearing)
65. RCC – Reinforced cement concrete
66. RL – Reduced Level
67. RMC – Ready Mix Concrete
68. SF – Shear Force
69. SOR – Schedule Of Rate
70. TEL – Total Energy Line
71. TMT – Thermo mechanically treated bars
72. WCB – Whole circle bearing

Abbreviations used in Earthquake Engineering

1. DBE – Design Basic Earthquake
2. MCR – Maximum Consider Earthquake
3. OMRF – Ordinary RC Moment Resisting Frame
4. SMRF – Special RC Moment Resisting Frame

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