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Imperial to metric conversion table

Vassilis Papanikolaou edited this page Jun 27, 2018 · 11 revisions
Imperial Units Metric Units
1 inch (in or '') 0.0254 meters (m)
1 foot (ft or ') 0.3048 meters (m)
1 square inch (in2) 6.452e-4 square meters (m2)
1 square foot (ft2) 0.0929 square meters (m2)
1 in4 4.162e-7 m4
1 ft4 0.008631 m4
1 kilopound (kip) 4.448 kilonewton (kN)
1 kip-in 0.11298 kNm
1 kip-sec2/in 175.127 tonnes (ton)
1 kip-sec2/ft 14.594 tonnes (ton)
1 kip/in 175.127 kN/m
1 kip/ft 14.594 kN/m
1 kip-in/rad 0.11298 kNm/rad
1 kip/in2 6.895e-3 GPa
1 kip/ft2 4.788e-5 GPa

Metric Units Imperial Units
1 meter (m) 39.37 inches (in or '')
1 meter (m) 3.28 feet (ft or ')
1 square meter (m2) 1550 square inches (in2)
1 square meter (m2) 10.764 square feet (ft2)
1 m4 2402510 in4
1 m4 115.86 ft4
1 kilonewton (kN) 0.2248 kilopound (kip)
1 kNm 8.851 kip-in
1 tonne (ton) 5.71e-3 kip-sec2/in
1 tonne (ton) 6.852e-2 kip-sec2/ft
1 kN/m 5.71e-3 kip/in
1 kN/m 6.852e-2 kip/ft
1 kNm/rad 8.8511 kip-in/rad
1 GPa 145.04 kip/in2
1 GPa 20885.42 kip/ft2

Fani Derveni, Vassilis K. Papanikolaou