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moment of inertia

moment of inertia

moment of inertia

(OP)
If i have two tubes of different diameters on the same centreline do I just add the two 'I's?

RE: moment of inertia

Nested tubes, one inside the other?  Same material? Fixed, or free to move, relative to one another?

RE: moment of inertia

No.

RE: moment of inertia

(OP)
tubes are nested, same material and tied to each other

RE: moment of inertia

Accounting for your last post, then: yes, just sum up the two moments of inertia.

prex

http://www.xcalcs.com
Online tools for structural design

RE: moment of inertia

If the tubes have the same axis of rotation, yes just add them up. This sounds like what you have, a tube inside a tube.

Cameron Anderson
www.aerotech.com
"Dedicated to the Science of Motion"

RE: moment of inertia

Not so simple gent's.

It depends on the point of load application.  You are right if and only if the load is applied along the common axis. If not, you have a more complicated case where simple adding is not the case.

Viktor
http://viktorastakhov.tripod.com

RE: moment of inertia

How does the load affect the moment of inertia?

RE: moment of inertia

Lcubed,

Inertia is basically a property of an object that resists a change in motion. It is dependent on the mass and shape of the object. The greater the object's mass, the greater the inertia. The greater the inertia the more force/torque is neccessary to accelerate/decelerate the object.

Read up on Newton's Laws of Motion.

For a Hollow Cylinder/Tube System, the formulas for calculating Inertia are.

     W
J = ---- x (ro^2 + ri^2)
     2g

or

    (pi)(L)(p)
J = ----------- x (ro^4 + ri^4)
        2g

J = inertia (lb-in-sec^2)
W = Weight of Load (lbs)
ro = radius to the outside of the tube (in)
ri = radius to the inside of tube (in)
g = gravity (386 in/sec^2)
pi = Pi = 3.141592654
L = Length of tube
p = material density of tube


Every shape/object will have an associate inertia formula tied to it so we can calculate.

Once you figure out how to do calculate Inertia, it is fairly simple, just can get time consuming.


Cameron Anderson
Sales & Applications Engineer
Aerotech Upper Midwest
www.aerotech.com
"Dedicated to the Science of Motion"

RE: moment of inertia

"It depends on the point of load application."

"How does the load affect the moment of inertia?"

It has nothing to do with it. As was stated in the beginning Servocam's post, "It is dependent on the mass and shape of the object." However, I think Servocam is mixing up Mass Moment of Inertia and Moment of Inertia. In the first equation, the W/g portion is the mass of the object, hence W is NOT applied load as was inferred by Viktor.

Plain and simple....moment of inertia is a function of geometry only. Mass moment of inertia is a function of mass/density and geometry.

RE: moment of inertia

Thank you, Fred.  My point exactly.  Instead of asking a question intended to promote some re-thinking, I should have simply pointed out that load application has no effect whatsoever on moment of inertia or mass moment of inertia.

RE: moment of inertia

just sum them up if the moment of inertia you looking at is on the same axis.

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