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Common Engineering Design Conversion Factors

This document provides common conversion factors for various engineering units. It lists units for length, area, volume, mass density, power, energy, heat, pressure, stress, specific heat, temperature, flow rate, force, weight, and fracture toughness. Conversion factors are given to convert between units like feet and meters, pounds and kilograms, Btu and joules, Fahrenheit and Celsius.

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Common Engineering Design Conversion Factors

This document provides common conversion factors for various engineering units. It lists units for length, area, volume, mass density, power, energy, heat, pressure, stress, specific heat, temperature, flow rate, force, weight, and fracture toughness. Conversion factors are given to convert between units like feet and meters, pounds and kilograms, Btu and joules, Fahrenheit and Celsius.

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Common Engineering Design Conversion

Factors
Given

Multiply by

To Find

Heat Content
Btu/lbm

0.555556

cal/g

Btu/lbm

2.324444

J/g

Btu/ft3

0.037234

MJ/m3

Heat Flux

Length [L]
Foot (ft)

0.304800

Meter (m)

Inch (in)

25.4000

Millimeter
(mm)

Mile (mi)

1.609344

Kilometer (km)

Area [L]2
ft2

0.092903

m2

in2

645.16

mm2

in2

6.45160

cm2

Volume [L]3 & Capacity

Btu/hr-ft2

7.5346 E-5

cal/s-cm2

Btu/hr-ft2

3.1525

W/m2

cal/s-cm2

4.184*

W/cm2

Mass Density [M] [L]-3


lbm/in3

27.68

g/cm3

lbm/ft3

16.0184

kg/m3

Power [M] [L]2 [t]-3


Btu/hr

0.292875

Watt (W)

ft-lbf/s

1.355818

in3

16.3871

cm3

Horsepower (hp)

745.6999

ft3

0.028317

m3

Horsepower

550.*

ft-lbf/s

ft3

7.4805

Gallon

ft3

28.3168

Liter (l)

Gallon

3.785412

Liter

Energy, Work or Heat [M] [L]2 [t]-2


Btu

1.05435

kJ

Btu

0.251996

kcal

Calories (cal)

4.184*

Joules (J)

ft-lbf

1.355818

ft-lbf

0.138255

kgf-m

hp-hr

2.6845

MJ

KWH

3.600

MJ

m-kgf

9.80665*

N-m

1.

Pressure (fluid) [M] [L]-1 [t]-2


Atmosphere
(atm)

14.696

lbf/in2

atm

1.01325 E5*

Pascal (Pa)

lbf/ft2

47.88026

Pa

lbf/in2

27.6807

in. H20 at
39.2F

Stress [M] [L]-1 [t]-2


kgf/cm2

9.80665 E2*

MPa

ksi

6.89476

MPa

N/mm2

1.

MPa

kgf/mm2

1.42231

ksi

Specific Heat
Btu/lbm-F

1.

cal/g-C

Temperature*
Flow Rate [L]3 [t]-1
ft3/min

7.4805

gal/min

ft3/min

0.471934

l/s

gal/min

0.063090

l/s

kgf

9.80665*

Newton (N)

lbf

4.44822

lbf

0.453592

Kgf

Fracture Toughness
1.098800

(F-32) /1.8

Celsius

Fahrenheit

F+459.67

Rankine

Celsius

C+273.16

Kelvin

Rankine

R/1.8

Kelvin

Thermal Conductivity

Force or Weight [M] [L] [t]-2

ksi sqr(in)

Fahrenheit

MPa sqr(m)

Btu-ft/hr-ft2-F

14.8816

* Indicates exact conversion(s)

cal-cm/hr-cm2C

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