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Metric units

Metric units

Metric units

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I have a german catalog listing steel shapes and properties. There is a column with a heading "moment WX/cm3". What does this column mean?

How can it be used to select a beam designed from the determination of "I" and "S" in American units?

RE: Metric units

I'll venture a guess.  Since the units seem to be cm^3 I would guess that Wx is the section modulus (our "S"). This implies that W is the second moment of inertia (our "I") and x is the distance from the neutral axis.  Does the magnitude of the numbers in the column seem about right?

1 inch = 2.54 cm

Hopefully you can get a definitive answer.

RE: Metric units

section modulus is I/x, but the units are right ...

RE: Metric units

Wx is the equivalent of Sx - W stands for "Widerstandsmoment".
Moment of Inertia is usually denoted either Ix or Jx in German.

1000 cm3 = 61 in3

Gregor Wollmann

RE: Metric units

Downlad the program " convert.exe"  from this site:

http://www.rcmodelbouw.nl/download.html

it works well in converting the old units to SI units and back

Wollman is right with his translation of W.

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