Example Problems for Moment of Inertia
Chitaranjan Dalai
Department of Civil Engineering
Odisha University of Technology and Research, Bhubaneswar
May 6, 2025
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Question 2
Determine the moment of inertia of the L section about it’s centroidal
axes parallel to the legs. Also find the polar moment of interia.
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We have area
A1 = 125 × 10 = 1250 mm2
A2 = 75 × 10 = 750 mm2
Total area A1 + A2 = 2000 mm2
Distance centroid from 1-1 axis
A1 y1 + A2 y2
ȳ =
A1 + A2
1250 × 62.5 + 750 × 5
=
2000
= 40.9375mm
Distance centroidal axis yy from 2-2 axis
A1 x1 + A2 x2
x̄ =
A1 + A2
1250 × 5 + 750 × ( 75
2 + 10)
=
2000
= 20.93mm
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Moment of inertia of the area about xx axis
" #
10 × 1253
Ixx = + 1250 × (62.5 − 40.9375)2
12
" #
75 × 103
+ + 750 × (40.9375 − 5)2
12
= (1627604.167 + 581176.7578) + (6250 + 968627.9297)
= 3183658.854mm4
Similarly M.I about yy centroidal axis
" #
125 × 103
Iyy = + 1250 × (20.93 − 5)2
12
" #
10 × 753
+ + 750 × (47.5 − 20.93)2
12
= (10416.666 + 317206.125) + (351562.5 + 529473.675)
= 1208658.967mm4
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Polar moment of inertia
Izz = Ixx + Iyy
= 4392317.821mm4
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Question 3
Calculate the moment of inertia of the shaded section about xx axis.
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Moment of inertia of the shaded section about xx axis
= M.I of the triangle ABC about xx + M.I of semicircle ACS about xx
− M.I of Circle
" #
100 × 1003 Π × 1004 Π × 504
= + −
12 128 64
= 1.048 × 107 mm4
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