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First/second moment of area. • Moment of inertia for an area ... Be able to compute the moments of inertia of composite areas.
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- Lecture - April 9 , Tuesday (4/10) PL HW 12 Thursday (4/12) WA 5 due Monday (4/16) Mastering Engineering Tutorial 14
Why do they usually not have solid rectangular, square, or circular cross sectional areas? What primary property of these members influences design decisions? Many structural members like beams and columns have cross sectional shapes like an I, H, C, etc. Applications These are aside notes from in- class discussion
The first moment of the area A with respect to the x-axis is given by The first moment of the area A with respect to the y-axis is given by The centroid of the area A is defined as the point C of coordinates and , which satisfies the relation In the case of a composite area, we divide the area A into parts , , Recap: First moment of an area (centroid of an area)
Terminology: the term moment in this module refers to the mathematical sense of different “measures” of an area or volume. The zeroth moment is the total mass. The first moment (a single power of position) gave us the centroid. The second moment will allow us to describe the “width.” An analogy that may help: in probability the first moment gives you the mean (the center of the distribution), and the second is the standard deviation (the width of the distribution).
Determine the moment of inertia for the rectangular area shown w.r.t. the centroidal axis 𝑥 ′ .
Often, the moment of inertia of an area is known for an axis passing through the centroid ; e.g., x’ and y’ : The moments around other axes can be computed from the known Ix’ and Iy’ :
Note: the integral over y’ gives zero when done through the centroid axis.
Area Moments of Inertia for common shapes
𝐼𝑧𝑧 = න 𝜌 𝑟 2 𝑑𝑉 𝑇 = 𝐼 𝛼 Mass moment of inertia for a disk: Torque-acceleration relation: where the mass moment of inertia is defined as 𝛼𝑧 𝑟
English units (inches)
Metric units (mm)