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Monday 28 November 2011

PARALLEL AXIS THEOREM AND IT'S USES IN MOI

Moment Of Inertia of an Area.
MOI or MOMENTS OF INERTIA is a physical quantity which represents the inertia or resistances shown by the body against the tendency to rotate under the action external forces on the body. It is a rotational axis dependent function as its magnitude depends upon our selection of rotational axis. Although for any axis, we can derive the expression for MOI with the help of calculus, but still it is a cumbersome process.


Now suppose we take a different issue. We know MOI of an area about its centroidal axis is easily be obtained by integral calculus, but can we find a general formula by which we can calculate MOI of an area about any axis if we know its CENTROIDAL MOI.

We shall here find that we can indeed derive an expression by which MOI of any area (A) can be calculated about any Axis, if we know its centroidal MOI and the distance of the axis from it's Centroid G.


If IGX be the centroidal moment of inertia of an area (A) about X axis, then we can calculate MOI of the Area about a parallel axis (here X axis passing through the point P) at a distance Ŷ-Y'=Y from the centroid if we know the value of IGX and Y, then IPX will be
IPX = IGX + A.Y2 where Y=Ŷ-Y'


IXX = IOX = IGX + A.Ŷ2
Where IXX is the moment of inertia of the area about the co-ordinate axis parallel to X axis and passing through origin O, hence we can say,

IXX = IOX

 IMPORTANT: The notation of Moment of Inertia

MOI of an area about an axis passing through a point B will be written as IBX



Q: Find the Centroidal Moment of Inertia of the figure given above. Each small division represents 50 mm.

To find out Centroidal MOI