D38 2m rebar — 17.9 kg per bar
A D38 2m bar weighs 17.9 kg. The 8.95 kg/m comes from the 1140.09 mm² cross-section of a 38.1 mm nominal diameter times a density of 7850 kg/m³, so 100 bars are 1790 kg and a tonne holds 55 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.
- ⌀ 38.1 mm · 1140.09 mm²8.95 kg/m
- ⌀ 38 mm8.903 kg/m
- Bar size
- D38
- Length
- 2 m
- Nominal diameter
- 38.1 mm
- Cross-section
- 1140.09 mm²
- Weight per metre
- 8.95 kg/m
- Weight per bar
- 17.9 kg
- 100 bars
- 1790 kg
- Bars per tonne
- 55
- Lap splice
- 1.524 m · 13.64 kg
- Order weight
- 1879.5 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 D38 2m bar weigh?
17.9 kg — 8.95 kg/m times 2 m. Ten bars come to 179 kg and a hundred to 1790 kg.
Q. How many bars make a tonne?
55. That is 1000 divided by 17.9 kg, and 100 bars weigh 1.79 t. Ordered with 5 % waste, those 100 become 1879.5 kg.
Q. Where does 8.95 kg/m come from?
The 1140.09 mm² cross-section of a 38.1 mm nominal diameter, converted to m² and multiplied by a density of 7850 kg/m³. Using the label 38 instead would give 8.903 kg/m, which is wrong.