Pounds per cubic foot to kilograms per cubic metre – and kilograms per cubic metre to pounds per cubic foot
1 lb/ft³ = 16.018463 kg/m³
All units in this category
- 16.018463kg/m³
- 0.016018463g/cm³
- 0.016018463kg/l
- 1lb/ft³
- 0.13368056lb/gal
Formula
Multiply the value in pounds per cubic foot by 16.018463 to get kilograms per cubic metre.kg/m³ = lb/ft³ × 16.018463
Multiply the value in kilograms per cubic metre by 0.062427961 to get pounds per cubic foot.lb/ft³ = kg/m³ × 0.062427961
How to convert pounds per cubic foot to kilograms per cubic metre
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Doing it in your head
A rough conversion for when the calculator is not to hand. The error comes last, and it holds in both directions at that order of magnitude.
- Pounds per cubic foot to kilograms per cubic metre: × 16. That gives 16 instead of 16.0185, an error of 0.12%.
- Kilograms per cubic metre to pounds per cubic foot: ÷ 16. That gives 0.0625 instead of 0.062428, an error of 0.12%.
Pounds per cubic foot to kilograms per cubic metre – common values
| Pounds per cubic foot (lb/ft³) | Kilograms per cubic metre (kg/m³) |
|---|---|
| 0.5 | 8.00923 |
| 0.8 | 12.8148 |
| 1 | 16.0185 |
| 1.2 | 19.2222 |
| 2 | 32.0369 |
| 2.7 | 43.2499 |
| 5 | 80.0923 |
| 7.8 | 124.944 |
| 10 | 160.185 |
| 19.3 | 309.156 |
Kilograms per cubic metre to pounds per cubic foot – common values
| Kilograms per cubic metre (kg/m³) | Pounds per cubic foot (lb/ft³) |
|---|---|
| 0.5 | 0.031214 |
| 0.8 | 0.0499424 |
| 1 | 0.062428 |
| 1.2 | 0.0749136 |
| 2 | 0.124856 |
| 2.7 | 0.168555 |
| 5 | 0.31214 |
| 7.8 | 0.486938 |
| 10 | 0.62428 |
| 19.3 | 1.20486 |
About the units
Pounds per cubic foot. Pounds per cubic foot is avoirdupois pounds per cubic foot. Since both the pound and the foot are exact figures the conversion is exact: one pound per cubic foot is 16.01846337396014 kilograms per cubic metre. The unit is used in American building and materials engineering for concrete, timber, insulation and soil, and in oil and gas; in the EU it is not a legal unit. Water is 62.43 pounds per cubic foot. The trap is pounds per gallon, nearly 7.5 times larger.
Kilograms per cubic metre. The kilogram per cubic metre is the SI coherent unit of density and a legal unit throughout the EU as a combination of the kilogram and the cubic metre. It is used for building materials, concrete, insulation, process liquids and air density in meteorology. Water is about 1,000 kilograms per cubic metre, but that figure is no longer a definition: the litre was defined in 1901 as the volume of one kilogram of water, and that definition was repealed in 1964.