Area moments of inertia

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Description Figure Area moment of inertia Comment Reference
a filled circular area of radius r    

 

 
[1]
an annulus of inner radius r1 and outer radius r2    

 

 
For thin tubes,   and  .

We can say that   and because   this bracket can be simplified to  . Ultimately, for a thin tube,  .

a filled circular sector of angle θ in radians and radius r with respect to an axis through the centroid of the sector and the center of the circle     This formula is valid for only for 0 ≤   
a filled semicircle with radius r with respect to a horizontal line passing through the centroid of the area     [2]
a filled semicircle as above but with respect to an axis collinear with the base     This is a consequence of the parallel axis theorem and the fact that the distance between these two axes is   [2]
a filled semicircle as above but with respect to a vertical axis through the centroid
 
  [2]
a filled quarter circle with radius r entirely in the 1st quadrant of the Cartesian coordinate system     [3]
a filled quarter circle as above but with respect to a horizontal or vertical axis through the centroid     This is a consequence of the parallel axis theorem and the fact that the distance between these two axes is   [3]
a filled ellipse whose radius along the x-axis is a and whose radius along the y-axis is b   

 
a filled rectangular area with a base width of b and height h    

 
[4]
a filled rectangular area as above but with respect to an axis collinear with the base     This is a result from the parallel axis theorem [4]
a filled rectangular area as above but with respect to an axis collinear, where r is the perpendicular distance from the centroid of the rectangle to the axis of interest   This is a result from the parallel axis theorem [4]
a filled triangular area with a base width of b and height h with respect to an axis through the centroid     [5]
a filled triangular area as above but with respect to an axis collinear with the base     This is a consequence of the parallel axis theorem [5]
a filled regular hexagon with a side length of a     The result is valid for both a horizontal and a vertical axis through the centroid, and therefore is also valid for an axis with arbitrary direction that passes through the origin.
An equal legged angle    

 

 

 
  is the often unused product of inertia, used to define inertia with a rotated axis
Any plane region with a known area moment of inertia for a parallel axis. (Main Article parallel axis theorem)     This can be used to determine the second moment of area of a rigid body about any axis, given the body's moment of inertia about a parallel axis through the object's center of mass and the perpendicular distance (r) between the axes.
  1. ^ "Circle". eFunda. Retrieved 2006-12-30.
  2. ^ a b c "Circular Half". eFunda. Retrieved 2006-12-30.
  3. ^ a b "Quarter Circle". eFunda. Retrieved 2006-12-30.
  4. ^ a b c "Rectangular area". eFunda. Retrieved 2006-12-30.
  5. ^ a b "Triangular area". eFunda. Retrieved 2006-12-30.