kip
kip
Forceexact by definition
The kip is exactly 1000 pounds-force, or 4448.2216152605 newtons. It is the structural engineer's unit in the United States: column loads, beam reactions and pile capacities are all in kips, because working in pounds would put four extra digits on every line of a load take-off.
Watch out: A kip is a force. A "kip" occasionally appears meaning 1000 pounds of mass, especially in older shipping and crane literature, and the two are only interchangeable where nothing accelerates.
| 1 kip | 4,448.2216 N |
Where the unit came from
A portmanteau of kilo and pound, coined in American structural practice in the early twentieth century for exactly the reason the kilonewton exists.
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