Convert bending moment units including kip-feet, kip-inches, pound-feet, pound-inches, newton-meters, kilonewton-meters, newton-millimeters, and ton-feet for beams, joists, rafters, columns, and structural estimates.
Kip-feet to pound-feet:
1 kip-ft = 1,000 lb-ft
Kip-inches to pound-inches:
1 kip-in = 1,000 lb-in
Pound-feet to newton-meters:
1 lb-ft = 1.35582 N·m
Kilonewton-meters to kip-feet:
1 kN·m ≈ 0.737562 kip-ft
Bending moment conversions are useful for beams, joists, rafters, headers, girders, lintels, columns, base plates, footings, retaining walls, steel members, wood members, reinforced concrete, and structural drawings.
Use this converter when switching between US structural moment units, metric moment units, beam calculation outputs, and engineering plan values.
Your result shows the entered bending moment converted from the starting unit into the selected ending unit. The converter also shows common references such as pound-feet, pound-inches, kip-feet, kip-inches, and kilonewton-meters.
This converter changes bending moment units only. It does not calculate the bending moment from beam span and loads. Structural design also depends on supports, load combinations, material strength, section modulus, deflection, connections, and code requirements.
Bending moment is a force multiplied by distance that describes the bending effect in a structural member.
Multiply kip-feet by 1,000. For example, 6 kip-ft equals 6,000 lb-ft.
Multiply pound-feet by 12. For example, 100 lb-ft equals 1,200 lb-in.
They use the same force-distance units, but bending moment usually describes beam bending, while torque usually describes twisting.
No. This converter only changes bending moment units. To calculate bending moment, you need the load, span, support condition, and loading pattern.