Appendix 5

Properties of plane areas and rigid bodies

Centroid
ZG = -
C mizi (A5.6~)
The position of the centroid of a plane area is given by M
$1 dA SY dA
XG = - and yG=- (A5.1) Also 2 mipi = 0 or, in scalar form,
Id.4 SdA
where dA is an elemental area and JdA is the C mipxi= 0, etc.
area, A .
Moment of inertia
Second moment of area
The second moment of area about the x axis is
Iox = $x2dA =Aka? (A5.2)

Parallel-axes theorem
10, = 1% +h G 2 (A5.3)

Perpendicular-axes theorem Figure A5.2

Ioz = I o x + 10, (A5.4)
In Fig. A5.2, the moment of inertia about the z-axis is
Centre of mass I,, = Mko: = 2mi(x:+y?) (A5.7)
oxy = C mixiyi (A5.8)

Parallel-axes theorem
IO, = ZGz + M (xG2+ YG2 ) (A5.9)
I o x y = I G ~ Y+ MXGYG (A5.10)

Figure A5.1 Perpendicular-axes theorem

The position of the centre of mass G (Fig. A5.1) is For a thin lamina in the xy-plane,
defined by (A5.11)
10, = I o x + I o y
rG =-
C miri (A5.5)
M
or by the three scalar equations

XG=-
C mixi (A5.6a)
M
C miyi (A5.6b)
YG =-
M
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Properties of plane areas and rigid bodies

Table A5.1
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Table A5.1 - continued