D16 5m rebar — 7.8 kg per bar
A D16 5m bar weighs 7.8 kg. The 1.56 kg/m comes from the 198.56 mm² cross-section of a 15.9 mm nominal diameter times a density of 7850 kg/m³, so 100 bars are 780 kg and a tonne holds 128 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.
- ⌀ 15.9 mm · 198.56 mm²1.56 kg/m
- ⌀ 16 mm1.578 kg/m
- Bar size
- D16
- Length
- 5 m
- Nominal diameter
- 15.9 mm
- Cross-section
- 198.56 mm²
- Weight per metre
- 1.56 kg/m
- Weight per bar
- 7.8 kg
- 100 bars
- 780 kg
- Bars per tonne
- 128
- Lap splice
- 0.636 m · 0.992 kg
- Order weight
- 819 kg
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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 D16 5m bar weigh?
7.8 kg — 1.56 kg/m times 5 m. Ten bars come to 78 kg and a hundred to 780 kg.
Q. How many bars make a tonne?
128. That is 1000 divided by 7.8 kg, and 100 bars weigh 0.78 t. Ordered with 5 % waste, those 100 become 819 kg.
Q. Where does 1.56 kg/m come from?
The 198.56 mm² cross-section of a 15.9 mm nominal diameter, converted to m² and multiplied by a density of 7850 kg/m³. Using the label 16 instead would give 1.578 kg/m, which is wrong.