D13 6m rebar — 5.97 kg per bar
A D13 6m bar weighs 5.97 kg. The 0.995 kg/m comes from the 126.68 mm² cross-section of a 12.7 mm nominal diameter times a density of 7850 kg/m³, so 100 bars are 597 kg and a tonne holds 167 bars.
D13 is a name, 12.7 mm is the diameter
The 13 in D13 is a label; the diameter that goes into the formula is 12.7 mm, inherited from a half inch. Feed the label into the formula and you get 1.042 kg/m, 5 % heavier than the standard value of 0.995 kg/m. The same choice is why a ribbed bar can be treated as a smooth cylinder at all: the standard sets the nominal diameter so that it reproduces the real mass.
- ⌀ 12.7 mm · 126.68 mm²0.995 kg/m
- ⌀ 13 mm1.042 kg/m
- Bar size
- D13
- Length
- 6 m
- Nominal diameter
- 12.7 mm
- Cross-section
- 126.68 mm²
- Weight per metre
- 0.995 kg/m
- Weight per bar
- 5.97 kg
- 100 bars
- 597 kg
- Bars per tonne
- 167
- Lap splice
- 0.508 m · 0.505 kg
- Order weight
- 626.85 kg
Nearby cells
Same size, other lengths
Same length, other sizes
Worth knowing
- Weight per metre (kg/m) is π/4 × nominal diameter² × 7850 ÷ 10⁶ — that is the 0.006165 factor.
- What goes into the formula is the nominal diameter, not the label: D13 means 12.7 mm.
- Total weight is weight per metre × length × count, and doubling the diameter quadruples the weight.
- An order adds lap splices, roughly 40 diameters each, and 3 to 5 % for waste.
Common questions
Q. How much does one D13 6m bar weigh?
5.97 kg — 0.995 kg/m times 6 m. Ten bars come to 59.7 kg and a hundred to 597 kg.
Q. How many bars make a tonne?
167. That is 1000 divided by 5.97 kg, and 100 bars weigh 0.597 t. Ordered with 5 % waste, those 100 become 626.85 kg.
Q. Where does 0.995 kg/m come from?
The 126.68 mm² cross-section of a 12.7 mm nominal diameter, converted to m² and multiplied by a density of 7850 kg/m³. Using the label 13 instead would give 1.042 kg/m, which is wrong.