Calculated Industries 8545 - Manual (Page 33)

Volume/Weight Calculations
Concrete Footing
Find the total volume of concrete
required to pour five 24 inch by 12 inch
footings, each 2 feet deep. Then find the
weight of the concrete (use the default
weight factor of 1.5 tons per cubic yard).
Steps Keystrokes Display
All Clear [Conv] [x] 0.
Recall weight
per cubic yard [Rcl] [%]
1.5
TON PER CU YD
1 — Find Volume
Enter depth 2 [Feet] 2
FEET
Mult. by length [x] 24 [Inch] 24
INCH
Mult. by width [x] 12 [Inch] [=] 4
CU FEET
Convert to yards [Conv] [Yds] 0.148148
CU YD
Multiply by
5 footings
[x] 5 [=] 0.740741
CU YD
2 — Find the Weight of Concrete
Find tons [Conv] [Weight] 1.111111
TON
Find pounds [Weight] 2222.222
LB
Find metric tons [Weight]
MET
1.007983
TON
Find kilograms [Weight] 1007.983
K
G
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