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The following is a list of second moments of area of some shapes. The second moment of area, also known as area moment of inertia, is a geometrical property of an area which reflects how its points are distributed with respect to an arbitrary axis. The unit of dimension of the second moment of area is length to fourth power, L 4, and should not ...
The second moment of area for the entire shape is the sum of the second moment of areas of all of its parts about a common axis. This can include shapes that are "missing" (i.e. holes, hollow shapes, etc.), in which case the second moment of area of the "missing" areas are subtracted, rather than added.
In the beam equation, the variable I represents the second moment of area or moment of inertia: it is the sum, along the axis, of dA·r 2, where r is the distance from the neutral axis and dA is a small patch of area. It measures not only the total area of the beam section, but the square of each patch's distance from the axis.
The second polar moment of area, also known (incorrectly, colloquially) as "polar moment of inertia" or even "moment of inertia", is a quantity used to describe resistance to torsional deformation (), in objects (or segments of an object) with an invariant cross-section and no significant warping or out-of-plane deformation. [1]
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This list should be renamed to 2nd moments of area to avoid confusion with mass moments of inertia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.222.212.111 (talk • contribs) 19:56, 28 April 2010. While there are problems with some of the shape displays, this page is important for people (such as myself) studying angular mechanics.
In mathematics, the moments of a function are certain quantitative measures related to the shape of the function's graph.If the function represents mass density, then the zeroth moment is the total mass, the first moment (normalized by total mass) is the center of mass, and the second moment is the moment of inertia.
Second polar moment of area; Seismic moment; Shear and moment diagram; Spherical multipole moments; Stretch rule; T. Toroidal moment; Torque; Torsion (mechanics) V.