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CF RHS 500×300×10 - Section Properties

The CF RHS 500×300×10 is a rectangular hollow section with a mass of 120 kg/m, an overall depth of 500 mm and width of 300 mm and a wall thickness of 10 mm. It has a cross-sectional area of 153 cm², a second moment of area Iᵧ of 52300 cm⁴, a plastic modulus Wₚₗ,ᵧ of 2540 cm³, tabulated by CivilAxis from BS EN 10219-2:2006 (SCI P363 Blue Book).

Mass
120 kg/m
Depth
500 mm
Width
300 mm
Wall thickness
10 mm
Area
153 cm²
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CF RHS 500×300×10 section properties to BS EN 10219-2:2006.

Geometry

Depth of sectionh500
Width of sectionb300
Wall thicknesst10

Mass and area

Mass per metremass120
Cross-sectional areaA153

Bending about the major axis (y-y)

Area moment of inertia about y-axisIy52300
Elastic section modulus about y-axisWel,y2090
Plastic section modulus about y-axisWpl,y2540
Radius of gyration about y-axisiy18.5

Bending about the minor axis (z-z)

Area moment of inertia about z-axisIz23900
Elastic section modulus about z-axisWel,z1600
Plastic section modulus about z-axisWpl,z1790
Radius of gyration about z-axisiz12.5

Torsion and warping

Torsion constant (St Venant)It52700
Section modulus for torsionWt2690

Classification and stability

Flange local-buckling ratiocf/tf27
Web local-buckling ratiocw/tw47

Surface area

Surface area per metreSA/m1.56
Surface area per tonneSA/t13m²/t

Is CF RHS 500×300×10 strong enough?

Simply supported beam, uniform load, major-axis bending - to EN 1993-1-1.

✅Passes - 60% utilised, deflection governs
Bending29%
262.5 / 901.7 kNm
Shear5%
105.0 / 1959.9 kN
Deflection60%
16.6 / 27.8 mm

Class 2 section. ULS uses γQ = 1.5 on the load you enter; deflection uses the unfactored load against L/360. Lateral-torsional buckling is not included - the compression flange is assumed restrained.

Common questions about CF RHS 500×300×10

CF RHS 500×300×10 has a mass of 120 kg/m, tabulated to BS EN 10219-2:2006. A 12 m length therefore weighs about 1440 kg, which is the figure to use for a steel take-off or when checking a lift.

CF RHS 500×300×10 has a depth of 500 mm, a width of 300 mm, a wall thickness of 10 mm, with a cross-sectional area of 153 cm². These are the nominal dimensions from BS EN 10219-2:2006; rolling tolerances apply to the delivered section.

The plastic section modulus about the major axis, Wpl,y, is 2,540 cm³, and the elastic modulus Wel,y is 2,090 cm³. Wpl,y is what sets the moment capacity of a Class 1 or 2 section: M_pl,Rd = Wpl,y x f_y / gamma_M0, so at S355 with gamma_M0 = 1.0 this section reaches about 902 kNm before any stability check.

The second moment of area about the major axis, Iy, is 52,300 cm⁴, and about the minor axis Iz is 23,900 cm⁴. Iy is the value deflection depends on - for a simply supported beam under a uniform load, the midspan deflection is 5wL⁴/384EIy - so on spans where a deflection limit governs rather than strength, this is the number that decides the section.

Its local-buckling ratios are cf/tf = 27 for the flange and cw/tw = 47 for the web. EN 1993-1-1 Table 5.2 compares these against limits scaled by epsilon = sqrt(235/f_y), so the class depends on the steel grade as well as the geometry - the same section can be Class 1 in S275 and Class 3 in S355. Use the Capacity tab on this page for the classification at a specific grade.

iy is 18.5 cm about the major axis and iz is 12.5 cm about the minor axis. Column buckling is governed by the SMALLER value: the slenderness is lambda = L_cr / i, so with iz = 12.5 cm a 1.3 m effective length already gives lambda = 100. Minor-axis buckling almost always controls unless the weak axis is restrained.

The St Venant torsion constant It is 52,700 cm⁴. Closed sections carry torsion in a shear flow around the perimeter, which makes them far stiffer in torsion than an open section of the same weight and is usually why one is specified.

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