angle — 2.44 kg per metre, 3.1 cm² cross-sectional area. IS 808 Table 9 - Equal Leg Angles.
Equal Leg Angles. Reproduced as printed in IS 808 Table 9 - Equal Leg Angles.
As printed in IS 808 Table 9 - Equal Leg Angles. legs 40 × 40 mm, 4 mm thick. Units are shown on every row, because the two standards on this site use different ones for the radius of gyration.
| Length of leg A A | 40 | mm |
|---|---|---|
| Length of leg B B | 40 | mm |
| Thickness of leg t | 4 | mm |
| Root radius R1 | 5.5 | mm |
| Toe radius R2 | 0 | mm |
| Mass per metre M | 2.44 | kg/m |
|---|---|---|
| Sectional area A | 3.1 | cm² |
| Centroid from the back of leg A Cx | 11.3 | mm |
|---|---|---|
| Centroid from the back of leg B Cy | 11.3 | mm |
| Second moment of area Ixx | 4.63 | cm⁴ |
|---|---|---|
| Radius of gyration rxx | 12.2 | mm |
| Elastic section modulus Zxx | 1.62 | cm³ |
| Plastic section modulus Zpx | 2.9 | cm³ |
| Second moment of area Iyy | 4.63 | cm⁴ |
|---|---|---|
| Radius of gyration ryy | 12.2 | mm |
| Elastic section modulus Zyy | 1.62 | cm³ |
| Plastic section modulus Zpy | 2.92 | cm³ |
| Second moment of area Iuu | 7.34 | cm⁴ |
|---|---|---|
| Second moment of area Ivv | 1.93 | cm⁴ |
| Radius of gyration ruu | 15.4 | mm |
| Radius of gyration rvv | 7.9 | mm |
| Tangent of the principal axis angle tan α | 0.79 |
| Torsion constant (St Venant) It | 0.162 | cm⁴ |
|---|
Total weight is the mass per metre multiplied by the length and the number of pieces. Ten pieces of ∠ 40 × 40 × 4 at six metres each is 2.44 × 6 × 10 = 146 kg. There is nothing else to it — the standard publishes the mass, so no one needs to compute it from the area.
You can check that mass against the area on this page: 3.1 cm² of steel at 7 850 kg/m³ is 2.43 kg/m. Every row in this dataset was checked that way, which is how the contradictions flagged on some of these pages were found.
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IS 808 : 2021 gives ∠ 40 × 40 × 4 a mass of 2.44 kg per metre. Its printed cross-sectional area of 3.1 cm² agrees: 3.1 cm² of steel at 7 850 kg/m³ works out at 2.43 kg per metre.
14.64 kg. Mass per metre times length: 2.44 × 6. Ten such pieces come to 146 kg.
It is the same section under the name IS 808 : 2021 gives it — the 2021 revision of IS 808 dropped the "IS" prefix, so a drawing saying ISA 40x40x4 means this section. Check the edition before assuming the figures match, though: this page publishes the current tables, and a great many tables in circulation were copied from the 1989 edition.
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