Rebar Weight Calculator

Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon that's created by heating iron in the presence of oxygen. Iron is a soft, malleable metal, and by adding 1.5 to 2 percent carbon, it can be transformed into steel – a material that's stronger but less malleable. Stainless steel takes it a step further by adding varying amounts of chromium to prevent rust, while cast iron is formed when the carbon content is higher than 2 percent, making it harder to shape but able to be melted and cast into moulds.
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A common requirement for the shape of steel is a round bar weight calculator.
This calculation provides a quick quantity estimate for rebar weight calculations for steel weight using the unit weight of steel.
CalculationInputs﻿﻿Bar diameter
:12 mm​
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﻿﻿Bar length
:1.5 m​
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﻿﻿Number of bars
:9​
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Output﻿﻿Bar unit weight
:0.8874 kg / mm​
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﻿﻿Total weight
:11.98 kg​
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ExplanationTo calculate the steel reinforcement bar tonnage, or create a steel bar weight calculator we first need to derive the 'unit weight of steel'. Once we've got this, we can then easily calculate the tonnage of steel reinforcement bar for varying diameter bars.
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Reinforcement steel bar length and diameter.
A common factor is used for this in most countries, we show to derive it for metric units below, using the commonly used density of steel, 7850 kg/m3.
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Unit weight=π4×(d1000)2×7850 (kgm3)Unit weight=πd2×78504×10002Unit weight=d2×0.006165Unit \space weight=  \frac{\pi}{4}\times (\frac{d}{1000})^2 \times 7850 \space (\frac {kg}{m^3}) \\ Unit \space weight=  \frac{\pi d^2\times 7850}{4\times 1000^2} \\ Unit \space weight=  d^2\times 0.006165Unit weight=4π​×(1000d​)2×7850 (m3kg​)Unit weight=4×10002πd2×7850​Unit weight=d2×0.006165
Which is commonly approximated to:
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Unit weight=d2162.28 (kgm)\\ Unit \space weight=  \frac{d^2}{162.28} \space (\frac {kg}{m})Unit weight=162.28d2​ (mkg​)
From here, it's easy! It's just a case of plugging in your bar diameter, and then multiplying the length and number of bars you have.
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Total weight=Unit weight×Length×No. bars (kg)Total \space weight =Unit \space weight \times Length \times No. \space bars \: (kg)Total weight=Unit weight×Length×No. bars(kg)
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