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Moment of Inertia: Academic Resource Center
Moment of Inertia: Academic Resource Center
I x y dA 2
Derivation (cont’d)
• Consider an axis BB’ parallel to AA’
through the centroid C of the area,
known as the centroidal axis. The
equation of the moment inertia
becomes:
I x y dA y d dA
2 2
y dA 2 y dA d dA
2
2
Derivation (cont’d)
The first integral is the
moment of inertia about
the centroid.
I x y dA
2
I x y dA 2 ydA d
2 2
dA
Ix d A2
Example
h b
Ix y dA y dxdy
2 2
Area 0 0
h
y bh 3
3
b
3 0 3
AA`
Alternative Method
• Recall the method of finding centroids of composite bodies?
• Utilizing a know reference table we can use a similar
tabulation technique to find the moment of inertia of any
composite body.
Standard Table Example
Example
Find Moment of Inertia of this object:
• First we divide the object into two standard shapes present in the
reference tables, the find the MI for each respective shape.
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1
Example (cont’d)
1 18 1 18
2 18 5 90
36 108
y
yi Ai
108 in
3.0 in.
3
Ai 36 in 2 2
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1
Example (cont’d)
2
1 18 1 18 6 -2 72
2 18 5 90 54 2 72
36 108 60 144
ybar 3 in.
I 204 in4
I x I xi yi y
2
Ai Parallel Axis Theorem
60 in 4 144 in 4 204 in 4
Example
Find the moment of inertia of the body using
the same procedure illustrated previously.
Example (cont’d)
Find the MI of the whole rectangle
(120mm*180mm) and then subtract
the MI of the white rectangle
(120mm*80mm) from the total area.
Bodies Ai yi y i*Ai Ii di=y i-ybar di2Ai
ybar 90 mm
I 46800000 mm4