AAR ............................................................................................... Association of American Railroads
AB ............................................................................................... American Bureau of Shipping AISI ............................................................................................... American Iron and Steel Institute ANSI ............................................................................................... American National Standard Institute API ............................................................................................... American Petroleum Institute ASTM ............................................................................................... . American Society of Testing Materials BS ............................................................................................... British Standards BV ............................................................................................... Bureau Veritas CSA ............................................................................................... Canadian Standards Association DIN ............................................................................................... Deutsche Industrie Normen GL ............................................................................................... Germanischer Lloyd IRS ............................................................................................... Indian Railway Standard IS ............................................................................................... Indian Stadard JIS ............................................................................................... Japanese Industrial Standard LR ............................................................................................... Lloyd's Register of Shipping NK ............................................................................................... Nippon Kaiji Kyokai NV ............................................................................................... Det Norske Veritas PRS ............................................................................................... Pakistan Railway Standard SAE ............................................................................................... Society of Automotive Engineers WES ............................................................................................... Welding Engineering Standards