SPECIFIC WEIGHTS OF SOME CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS

BULK BODIES Masonry

Weight Weight
Material designation Specific Material designation Specific
(Kg/m³) (Kg/m³)
Uncompacted dry soil 1300 Common bricks, lime mortar 1600
Uncompacted moist soil 1800 Common bricks, cement mortar 1800
Saturated uncompacted soil 2100 Hollow bricks, lime mortar 1300
Dry sand 1600 Hollow bricks, cement mortar 1500
Wet sand 1800 Machine bricks, lime mortar 2000
Saturated sand 2100 Machine bricks, cement mortar 2200
Cal 1000 Pressed bricks, lime mortar 1900
Brick rubble 1300 Pressed bricks, cement mortar 2100
Loose cement 1400 Hollow lightweight concrete blocks 1300
Quartzite split stone 1400 Hollow concrete blocks 1600
Granite split stone 1600
Boulder 1700
Gypsum 1250

Mortars
Specific
Material designation Weight
(Kg/m³)
Cement and Sand 2100
Cement, lime and sand 1900
Lime and sand 1700
Lime, sand and brick dust 1600

Timbers Concretes

Material designation Weight Material designation Weight

Specific Specific
(Kg/m³) (Kg/m³)
Flanders pine 700 Portland cement, sand and pebbles:
American Pine 800 Unassembled 2300
Pine tea 900 Armed 2400
Spruce pine 550 Portland cement, sand and broken stone:
White pine 550 Unassembled 2300
Spruce white to red spruce 600 Armed 2400
Live oak 950 Portland cement, sand and basaltic aggregate 2400
Hazel oak 650 Portland cement, sand and rubble 1800
Red or black oak 700 Portland cement, sand and iron ore 3600
White oak 750 Portland cement, sand and expanded clay 1800
Poplar 500 Lime, sand and rubble (Poor) 1600
Cypress 480

SPECIFIC WEIGHTS OF SOME CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS

Ceilings
Weight
Material Designation Specific
(Kg/m³)

Thermo-acoustic ceilings with modular wood fiber elements, mounted on metallic elements or wood 10
strips, including the same.
Ceilings with modular asbestos-cement elements, mounted on metal or wood lathing elements,
including the same 15

Gypsum board ceiling panels, mounted on an aluminum frame. 20

Cement, lime, sand, with expanded metal ceiling 50
Gypsum plaster ceiling with lathing 20
Applied plaster ceiling 5

Covers
Weight
Material Designation Specific
(Kg/m³)
7-layer asphalt waterproofing membrane 10
Corrugated corrugated or trapezoidal aluminum sheet without supporting reinforcement:
0.6 mm thick 2.5
0.8 mm thick 3
1 mm thick 4
Corrugated asbestos cement sheet:
4 mm thick (small wave) 10
6 mm thick (large wave) 15
8 mm thick (large wave) 20
Zinc-plated or aluminized steel corrugated sheet, corrugated or trapezoidal 10
0.7 mm thick zinc plate on planking, including planking 25
0.6 mm thick copper sheet on planking, including planking 25

Multiple asbestos cement slate sheeting on asbestos-cement slates, including the latter, without purlins: 25
1.5 mm thick reinforced plastic multi-shingle sheet in the form of a shingle, including supporting
reinforcement: 15

Asbestos cement multi-shingle sheeting over boarding, including the boarding: 30

Spanish or colonial type ceramic tiles, including supporting framework: 100
Marseille or French type ceramic tiles, on slates including this one: 55
Flemish type ceramic tiles, on slates including this one: 70
Slate roof tiles, including supporting framework: 45