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. BOQ – Bill of Quantities

18. BOT – Build Operate Transfer

19. BS – Back sight

20. CAD – Computer Aided Design

21. CAPO test – Cut And Pull Out test

22. CBR test – California Bearing Ratio Test

23. CPM – Critical Path Method

24. CPWD – Centre Public Works Department

25. CRRI – Central Road Research Institute of India

26. CSU – Cumulative Standard Axles

27. CTD – Cold Twisted Deformed bars

28. CUMEC – Cubic Metre Per Second

29. CUSEC – Cubic Foot/Feet Per Second

30. DPC – Damp Proof Course

31. DPR – Detailed Project Report

32. DTP – Draft, Tender, Paper

33. EMD – Earnest Money Deposit

34. EOR – Engineer Of Record

35. FAR – Floor Area Ratio

36. FEM – Finite Element Method

37. FS – Fore sight

38. FSI – Floor Space Index

39. FWD – Falling Weight Deflectometer

40. ICAO – International Civil Aviation Organization

41. IPS flooring – Indian Patent stone flooring

42. ICI – Indian Concrete Institute

43. ICJ – Indian Concrete Journal

44. IRC – Indian Road Congress

45. JCB – Joseph Cyril Bamford

46. GIS – Geographic Information System

47. GPS – Global Positioning System

48. GTS – Great Trigonometric Survey

49. HGL – Hydraulic Gradient Line

50. HYSD – High Yield strength deformed bars

51. MB – Measurement Book

52. MCB – Miniature Circuit Breaker

53. MDR – Major District Road

54. MEP – Mechanical Electrical Plumbing

55. MEPF – Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, and Fire Protection

56. MORTH – Ministry of Road Transport and Highway (India)

57. MSL – Mean Sea Level

58. NAVIC – NAVigation with Indian Constellation

59. NDT – Non Destructive Testing

60. NIT – Notice inviting tender

61. ODR – Other District Road

62. OPC – Ordinary Portland Cement

63. OSHA – Occupational Safety and Health Administration

64. PCC – Plain Cement Concrete

65. PE – Professional Engineer

66. PPC – Portland Pozzolana Cement

67. PERT – Programme Evaluation and Review Technique

68. PWD – Public Works Department

69. RB – Reduced Bearing (Also known as Quadrant Bearing)

70. RCC – Reinforced Cement Concrete

71. RFI – Request For Information

72. RFP – Request For Proposal

73. RFQ – Request For Qualifications

74. RL – Reduced Level

75. RMC – Ready Mix Concrete

76. SF – Shear Force

77. SOR – Schedule Of Rate

78. TEL – Total Energy Line

79. TMT – Thermo mechanically treated bars

80. 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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