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The volume of wet concrete in cubic yards.
About 2.03 short tons per cubic yard for normal-weight concrete at roughly 150 lb per cubic foot.
Approximate weight
20.3 short tons
About 2.03 short tons per cubic yard for normal-weight concrete at roughly 150 lb per cubic foot. A planning figure, not a specification. Confirm the actual density with your supplier before ordering by weight.
- Conversion factor applied
- 2.03 short tons per yd³
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Wet Concrete Cubic Yards to Tons Calculator: 20.3 short tons — shown in imperial, US market. The link sets both, so the result they see is the one on your screen.
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- Typical bulk density used here: approximately 2.03 short tons per cubic yard
- Density varies with moisture, compaction and composition — the supplier's ticket weight governs
Inputs used
- Wet Concrete volume (yd³)
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Intermediate steps
- Conversion factor applied
- 2.03 short tons per yd³
Confidence note: About 2.03 short tons per cubic yard for normal-weight concrete at roughly 150 lb per cubic foot. A planning figure, not a specification. Confirm the actual density with your supplier before ordering by weight.
What this calculation does not cover
- The weight this returns is the concrete alone. A crane is checked on the gross lift and a weighbridge weighs the vehicle with it, so a volume that converts to a tonnage inside the rated figure can still be over it once the skip, the drum or the truck is counted — work to the rated payload rather than the volume the container holds.
- The volume entered here is normally a nominal one taken off dimensions, and placed concrete overruns it: excavated faces slump, sub-bases run low, and forms deflect under pressure. The batched volume on the delivery ticket is what was actually mixed and carried, so this tonnage is the lower end of what arrives rather than a settled figure.
- This describes concrete filling a form, not concrete in a pile. Broken-out slab carries a large void fraction between the lumps, so a heap takes up far more space and weighs much less per cubic yard than this; for a demolition weight measure the element in place, and expect the answer to run slightly heavy on a fresh-concrete density.
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- Typical bulk density used here: approximately 2.03 short tons per cubic yard
- Density varies with moisture, compaction and composition — the supplier's ticket weight governs
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Concrete is ordered by volume and almost never by weight, so this conversion is a haulage and loading question rather than an ordering one. It matters when checking what a slab weighs on a suspended floor, what a pour puts through temporary works, or whether a load is within a vehicle's limit. Normal-weight concrete runs around 150 pounds per cubic foot, which makes a single cubic yard just over two tons — a figure worth having in mind before assuming a small pour is a small load.