Indian Standard Steel Section Tables

Weight and section properties for all 1067 sections in IS 808 : 2021, IS 4923 : 2017 and IS 1161 : 2014 — beams, columns, channels, angles, bearing piles and hollow sections. Every section has its own page, with the cross-section drawn from its real dimensions rather than a stock outline.

These are the current editions. IS 808 : 2021 designates sections without the “IS” prefix the 1989 edition used — MB 300 rather than ISMB 300 — and it also renamed the axes to match IS 800, so the strong-axis second moment of area appears as Izz where an older table prints Ixx. If a figure here disagrees with one you have, check which edition yours came from before assuming either is wrong.

By shape

Angle Sections IS 808 Table 9 · 198 sizes Channel Sections IS 808 Table 6 · 60 sizes Beams & Columns (I-sections) IS 808 Table 1 · 272 sizes Hollow & Tubular Sections IS 4923:2017 (Amd. 2) Table 1 · 508 sizes Bearing Piles IS 808 Table 13 · 29 sizes

By standard table

Medium & Wide Flange Beams (MB, WB) IS 808 Table 1 - Medium & Wide Flange Beams · 28 sections Light & Junior Beams (LB, JB) IS 808 Table 2 - Light/Junior Beams · 25 sections Narrow Parallel Flange Beams (NPB) IS 808 Table 3 - Narrow Parallel Flange Beams · 70 sections Wide Parallel Flange Beams (WPB) IS 808 Table 4 - Wide Parallel Flange Beams · 123 sections Column / Heavy Beams (SC, HB) IS 808 Table 5 - Column / Heavy Beams · 26 sections Sloping Flange Channels (MC) IS 808 Table 6 - Sloping Flange Channels · 20 sections Sloping Flange Channels (LC, JC) IS 808 Table 7 - Sloping Flange Channels · 20 sections Parallel Flange Channels (MCP) IS 808 Table 8 - Parallel Flange Channels · 20 sections Equal Leg Angles IS 808 Table 9 - Equal Leg Angles · 72 sections Unequal Leg Angles IS 808 Table 10 - Unequal Leg Angles · 19 sections Angles (supplementary) IS 808 Table 11 - Angles · 62 sections Unequal Leg Angles (supplementary) IS 808 Table 12 - Supplementary Unequal Leg Angles · 45 sections Parallel Flange Bearing Piles (PBP) IS 808 Table 13 - Parallel Flange Bearing Piles · 29 sections Square Hollow Sections IS 4923:2017 (Amd. 2) Table 1 - Square Hollow Sections · 212 sections Rectangular Hollow Sections IS 4923:2017 Table 2 - Rectangular Hollow Sections (Amd. 2, weights per Amd. 3) · 216 sections Circular Hollow Sections IS 1161:2014 Table 1 - Steel Tubes for Structural Purposes · 80 sections

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All 1067 sections are searchable at the top of this page, and each has its own page with the full property table and its cross-section drawn to scale.

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Where these numbers come from

Every figure on these pages is reproduced from the Indian Standard that publishes it: IS 808 : 2021 for beams, columns, channels, angles and bearing piles, IS 4923 : 2017 as amended for square and rectangular hollow sections, and IS 1161 : 2014 for circular hollow sections. Section properties are facts, and they appear in every steel handbook; what is reproduced here is the numbers, not the text of the standards.

How the tables were checked

These tables carry their own check. Steel has a density of 7 850 kg/m³, and the standards print both the cross-sectional area and the mass per metre, so either one predicts the other. Of the 1,067 sections here, 1,049 agree to better than one percent — the small residual being three-significant-figure rounding in the printed area.

Eighteen do not, and they are marked. On those rows the standard contradicts itself, and both printed figures are shown exactly as issued rather than one being quietly replaced with whichever looks more plausible. Correcting a national standard is not this site’s job; telling you it disagrees with itself, before the number reaches a tender, is.

A second check covers the properties columns, which the first says nothing about. Radius of gyration is √(I/A) by definition, so every table states it three times over — and 107 of the 2,233 radius values disagree with the I and A printed beside them. Nearly all are out by exactly ten, because IS 808 switches that column from millimetres to centimetres partway down without relabelling it: WB 250’s radius is printed 10.6 where its own figures give 106.9 mm. Those rows say so on the page.

What is deliberately missing

IS 1161 prints three more columns for circular hollow sections — internal volume, and external and internal surface area, all per metre. They are not reproduced. The text layer of the published PDF gives a digit too many in 66 of those 240 figures (the external surface of a 33.7 mm tube reads 10059 where the page shows 1 059), and a value that cannot be read cannot be republished. They could be calculated from the tube diameter, and they would be right — but a number worked out here, printed in a column headed with the standard’s name, would not be the standard. If you need them for galvanising or painting quantities, take them from IS 1161 itself.

Flats and round bars are not here either. IS 808 covers beams, columns, channels and angles; IS 4923 and IS 1161 cover hollow sections. Flats are IS 1732, which is not one of the standards these tables were built from.

Working out the weight of a member

Total weight is the mass per metre multiplied by the length and the number of pieces. An MB 300 at 46.02 kg/m, in six-metre lengths, twelve of them, is 46.02 × 6 × 12 = 3 313 kg. Enter a rate per kilogram above and the panel prices it; leave the rate blank and it shows no money at all, because a stale steel rate is worse than none.

If a figure here disagrees with one you already have

Check which edition yours came from before assuming either is wrong. Everything here is IS 808 : 2021, the fourth revision, which merged the parallel-flange series from IS 12778 : 2004 and designates sections without the “IS” prefix — MB 300, not ISMB 300. A great many tables in circulation were copied from the 1989 third revision, and for some sections the two editions do not print the same figures.

One more thing worth knowing if you are reading across from an older table: the 2021 revision also renamed the axes to line up with IS 800. The major axis is now z-z and the minor y-y, so the strong-axis second moment of area appears here as Izz where an older table would call it Ixx. Reading the wrong column is an easy and expensive mistake; the headings here follow the 2021 convention throughout.

Common questions about Indian Standard steel sections

How many angle sections are there in the Indian Standards?

198, across 4 tables — IS 808 Table 9 - Equal Leg Angles; IS 808 Table 10 - Unequal Leg Angles; IS 808 Table 11 - Angles; IS 808 Table 12 - Supplementary Unequal Leg Angles. They run from ∠ 20 × 20 × 3 at 0.9 kg per metre to ∠ 200 × 200 × 25 at 73.9 kg per metre.

How many channel sections are there in the Indian Standards?

60, across 3 tables — IS 808 Table 6 - Sloping Flange Channels; IS 808 Table 7 - Sloping Flange Channels; IS 808 Table 8 - Parallel Flange Channels. They run from LC 75 at 5.7 kg per metre to MPC 400 at 50.1 kg per metre.

How many beams and columns are there in the Indian Standards?

272, across 5 tables — IS 808 Table 1 - Medium & Wide Flange Beams; IS 808 Table 2 - Light/Junior Beams; IS 808 Table 3 - Narrow Parallel Flange Beams; IS 808 Table 4 - Wide Parallel Flange Beams; IS 808 Table 5 - Column / Heavy Beams. They run from LB 75 at 6.05 kg per metre to WPB 800 × 300 at 317.36 kg per metre.

How many hollow and tubular sections are there in the Indian Standards?

508, across 3 tables — IS 4923:2017 (Amd. 2) Table 1 - Square Hollow Sections; IS 4923:2017 Table 2 - Rectangular Hollow Sections (Amd. 2, weights per Amd. 3); IS 1161:2014 Table 1 - Steel Tubes for Structural Purposes. They run from 20x20x2 at 1.05 kg per metre to 400x400x16 at 187.75 kg per metre.

How many bearing piles are there in the Indian Standards?

29, across 1 table — IS 808 Table 13 - Parallel Flange Bearing Piles. They run from PBP 200 at 43.85 kg per metre to PBP 400 at 230.9 kg per metre.

Where these figures come from. IS 808 : 2021, IS 4923 : 2017 as amended, and IS 1161 : 2014. Section properties are facts published in the standards, and they are reproduced here as printed. Where a standard contradicts itself, both of its figures are shown and neither is corrected.

What is ours. The selection and arrangement of these tables, the checks run against them, and the findings those checks produced — which rows disagree with themselves, which figures were superseded by amendment, and which could not be read — are QuickBOQ’s work, and so is this wording. Quote the numbers freely; they belong to everyone. Copying the compilation and the commentary is a different thing, and we would rather you linked to it.