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. ASCEAmerican Society of Civil Engineers
  5. ASTMAmerican 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. CPWDCentre Public Works Department
  24. CSU – Cumulative Standard Axles
  25. CTD – Cold Twisted Deformed bars
  26. CUMEC – Cubic Metre Per Second
  27. CUSEC – Cubic Foot/Feet Per Second
  28. DPC – Damp Proof Course
  29. DPR – Detailed Project Report
  30. DTP – Draft , Tender , Paper
  31. EMD – Earnest Money Deposit
  32. FAR – Floor Area Ratio
  33. FEM – Finite Element Method
  34. FS – Fore sight
  35. FSI – Floor Space Index
  36. FWD – Falling Weight Deflectometer
  37. ICAOInternational Civil Aviation Organization
  38. IPS flooring – Indian Patent stone flooring
  39. ICIIndian concrete Institute
  40. ICJIndian concrete Journal
  41. IRC – Indian Road Congress
  42. JCB – Joseph Cyril Bamford
  43. GIS – Geographic Information system
  44. GPS – Global Positioning System
  45. GTS – Great Trigonometric Survey
  46. HGL – Hydraulic Gradient Line
  47. HYSD – High Yield strength deformed bars
  48. MB – Measurement Book
  49. MCB – Miniature Circuit Breaker
  50. MDR – Major District Road
  51. MEP – Mechanical Electrical Plumbing
  52. MORTHMinistry of Road Transport and Highway (India)
  53. MSL – Mean Sea Level
  54. NAVIC – NAVigation with Indian Constellation
  55. NDT – Non Destructive Testing
  56. NIT – Notice inviting tender
  57. ODR – Other District Road
  58. OPC – Ordinary Portland Cement
  59. PCC – Plain Cement Concrete
  60. PPC – Portland Pozzolana Cement
  61. PERT – Programme Evaluation and Review Technique
  62. PWD – Public Works Department
  63. RB – Reduced Bearing (Also known as Quadrant Bearing)
  64. RCC – Reinforced cement concrete
  65. RL – Reduced Level
  66. RMC – Ready Mix Concrete
  67. SF – Shear Force
  68. SOR – Schedule Of Rate
  69. TEL – Total Energy Line
  70. TMT – Thermo mechanically treated bars
  71. 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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