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






RE: Metric units
1 inch = 2.54 cm
Hopefully you can get a definitive answer.
RE: Metric units
RE: Metric units
Moment of Inertia is usually denoted either Ix or Jx in German.
1000 cm3 = 61 in3
Gregor Wollmann
RE: Metric units
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.