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Could someone please explain the concept of inertia and inertia relief with relation to
bending moment calculations. Thanks.
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Suppose you want to do a stress analysis on a free structure that it accelerating (e.g.
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a rocket being propelled by its engine).

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The applied loads are not in equilibrium, (otherwise the structure would not be
acclerating), If you apply an arbitrary restraint at some point so you can do the
analysis, the answers will be wrong because there will be a reaction force at the
restraint which doesn't exist in the real situation.
The solution to this problem is to work in an accelerating coordinate system, attached
to the center or mass of the structure. You can find the accleration of the CG
assuming the structure is a rigid body (translational accel = force / mass, angular
accel = torque / inertia).
You can then apply the fictitious d'Alembert forces distributed over the structure, equal
to - mass x acceleration of each particle, and assume the CG is fixed to earth.
For example if you make a simple model of a rocket casing as a uniform axial tube,
with the motor force applied at one end, you wou also apply a distributed force along
the length, equal and opposite to the motor force. You can then fix the rocket at its
CG, and you will get no reaction force there because the sum of all the applied loads
is zero. The axial stress in the casing will be a maximum at the engine end and
decrease linearly to zero at the other end. If you restrained the rocket somewhere
without applying the inertial relief force, there would be a reaction where you restrained
it and the stress distribution would be wrong. For example if you restrained it at the
other end to the motor, you would get a uniform axial force along the whole length, not
a force decreasing to zero at the top.
You didn't say exactly what you were trying to do with a bending moment calculation,
but that is the general principle of how to do it.
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