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Widely Used Abbreviations In Civil Engineering

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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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