D32 8m rebar — 49.84 kg per bar
A D32 8m bar weighs 49.84 kg. The 6.23 kg/m comes from the 794.23 mm² cross-section of a 31.8 mm nominal diameter times a density of 7850 kg/m³, so 100 bars are 4984 kg and a tonne holds 20 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.
- ⌀ 31.8 mm · 794.23 mm²6.23 kg/m
- ⌀ 32 mm6.313 kg/m
- Bar size
- D32
- Length
- 8 m
- Nominal diameter
- 31.8 mm
- Cross-section
- 794.23 mm²
- Weight per metre
- 6.23 kg/m
- Weight per bar
- 49.84 kg
- 100 bars
- 4984 kg
- Bars per tonne
- 20
- Lap splice
- 1.272 m · 7.925 kg
- Order weight
- 5233.2 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 D32 8m bar weigh?
49.84 kg — 6.23 kg/m times 8 m. Ten bars come to 498.4 kg and a hundred to 4984 kg.
Q. How many bars make a tonne?
20. That is 1000 divided by 49.84 kg, and 100 bars weigh 4.984 t. Ordered with 5 % waste, those 100 become 5233.2 kg.
Q. Where does 6.23 kg/m come from?
The 794.23 mm² cross-section of a 31.8 mm nominal diameter, converted to m² and multiplied by a density of 7850 kg/m³. Using the label 32 instead would give 6.313 kg/m, which is wrong.