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A conversion from pounds per square feet (psf) to pounds per linear feet plf is necessary to design, for example, a beam.
---Take a 15 foot floor beam for example: live load plus dead load is say, 100 psf. lets say this beam's tributary area is 8 ft (meaning it supports all loads 4ft on either side).
-now the math : 8ft X 15ft = 120 square feet. Now 120 sf X 100 psf = 12,000 pounds. this means the beam carries 12,000# divide by 15 ft and you have 800 pounds per linear ft or 800 plf.

Basically find total Weight then devide by the Length.

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To convert pounds per square foot to pounds per linear foot, you need to know the width of the material in feet. Once you have that, you can multiply the pounds per square foot by the width in feet to get the pounds per linear foot. This conversion helps in understanding the linear weight of a material based on its thickness.

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The standard atmosphere (symbol: atm) is a unit of pressure equal to 101,325 Pa or 1,013.25 hectopascals or millibars. Equivalent to 760 mmHg (torr), 29.92 inHg, 14.696 psi. (The pascal is a newton per square meter or in terms of SI base units, kilogram per meter per second-squared.) Simply convert meters to feet using this formula.

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There is no conversion from PSI to lb/in. It is a totally different calculation.

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Those units measure different things, so you really can't convert one to the other.

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pounds per square foot / 144 = PSI

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51 psi = 7,344 pounds per square foot

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19.25 lb/gal = 1 psi

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PSI

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