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What Is A Moment of Inertia?

Moment of inertia is a measure of an object's resistance to changes in its rotation and is usually quantified in m4 or kg-m2. It must be specified for a chosen axis of rotation. The centroid, or center of gravity, is the point where gravity appears to act and allows an object to remain balanced. The perpendicular axis theorem states the moment of inertia about an axis normal to a plane is equal to the sum of moments of inertia about two perpendicular axes in the plane. The parallel axis theorem says the moment of inertia about a parallel axis is the sum of the moment about the centroidal axis and the product of the area and the distance from the reference axis squared.

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What Is A Moment of Inertia?

Moment of inertia is a measure of an object's resistance to changes in its rotation and is usually quantified in m4 or kg-m2. It must be specified for a chosen axis of rotation. The centroid, or center of gravity, is the point where gravity appears to act and allows an object to remain balanced. The perpendicular axis theorem states the moment of inertia about an axis normal to a plane is equal to the sum of moments of inertia about two perpendicular axes in the plane. The parallel axis theorem says the moment of inertia about a parallel axis is the sum of the moment about the centroidal axis and the product of the area and the distance from the reference axis squared.

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Moment of Inertia

What is a Moment of Inertia?


•It is a measure of an object’s resistance to changes to its rotation.
•Also defined as the capacity of a cross-section to resist bending.
•It must be specified with respect to a chosen axis of rotation.
•It is usually quantified in m4 or kgm2
Quick Note about Centroids….
•The centroid, or center of gravity, of any object is the point within that object from
which the force of gravity appears to act.
•An object will remain at rest if it is balanced on any point along a vertical line passing
through its center of gravity.
The centroid of a 2D surface is a point that corresponds to the center of gravity of a
very thin homogeneous plate of the same area and shape.
• If the area (or section or body) has one line of symmetry, the centroid will lie
somewhere along the line of symmetry.
Perpendicular Axis Theorem
•The moment of inertia (MI) of a plane area about an axis normal to the plane is equal
to the sum of the moments of inertia about any two mutually perpendicular axes
lying in the plane and passing through the given axis.
•That means the Moment of Inertia Iz = Ix+Iy
Parallel Axis Theorem
•The moment of area of an object about any axis parallel to the centroidal axis is the
sum of MI about its centroidal axis and the prodcut of area with the square of
distance of from the reference axis.
•Essentially, IXX= IG+Ad2
•A is the cross-sectional area. d is the perpendicuar distance between the centroidal
axis and the parallel axis.
Standard Table Example

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