Moment of Inertia - 4 semi-Circles with Hollowed Core

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The shape shaded in blue is composed of 4 semi-circles with a hollowed out square core. If the radius of the respective circles are 5 units and the side lengths of the square are 7.0711 units, what is the area moment of inertia about the x-axis?


The answer is 5236.91.

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2 solutions

Steven Chase
Apr 24, 2020

I calculated three double integrals: one for each of the green regions. Then I multiplied by four. I assumed that there was one unit of mass per unit area.

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import math

Num = 5000

I = 0.0

##########################################################

# Upper Quarter Disk

dr = 5.0/Num
dtheta = (math.pi/2.0)/Num

r = 0.0

while r <= 5.0:

    theta = 0.0

    while theta <= math.pi/2.0:

        y = 5.0 + r*math.sin(theta)
        dA = r*dr*dtheta

        dI = dA*(y**2.0)
        I = I + dI

        theta = theta + dtheta

    r = r + dr

##########################################################

# Lower Quarter Disk

dr = 5.0/Num
dtheta = (math.pi/2.0)/Num

r = 0.0

while r <= 5.0:

    theta = 0.0

    while theta <= math.pi/2.0:

        y = r*math.sin(theta)
        dA = r*dr*dtheta

        dI = dA*(y**2.0)
        I = I + dI

        theta = theta + dtheta

    r = r + dr

##########################################################

# Triangle

dx = 5.0/Num
dy = dx

x = 0.0

while x <= 5.0:

    y = 5.0

    while y >= -x + 5.0:

        dA = dx*dy

        dI = dA*(y**2.0)
        I = I + dI

        y = y - dy

    x = x + dx

##########################################################

# Multiply by 4 and print

I = I*4.0

print Num
print I

##########################################################

#>>> 
#1000
#5249.68358302
#>>> ================================ RESTART ================================
#>>> 
#2000
#5236.0317262
#>>> ================================ RESTART ================================
#>>> 
#4000
#5236.67885474
#>>> ================================ RESTART ================================
#>>> 
#5000
#5235.24995651
#>>> 

@Steven Chase sir good solution. I can't able to solve this question because mass was not given. It should be clearly mentioned in question. We can solve this question without integration also.

A Former Brilliant Member - 1 year, 1 month ago

The solid figure (without the square cut) is comprised of four semicircles of radius 5 5 units each, and a square of side length 10 10 units. Applying the parallel axes theorem to the two semicircles whose diameters are parallel to the x x -axis, we get their geometric moments of inertia equal to 625 π 8 5000 9 π + 25 π 2 × ( 5 + 20 3 π ) 2 \dfrac{625π}{8}-\dfrac{5000}{9π}+\dfrac{25π}{2}\times \left(5+\dfrac{20}{3π}\right ) ^2 each. The geometric moments of inertia of the other two semicircles are 625 π 8 \dfrac{625π}{8} each. The geometric moment of inertia of the square of side length 10 10 units about the x x -axis is 2500 3 \dfrac{2500}{3} , and of the cut off square about that axis is 625 6 \dfrac{625}{6} . Therefore the geometric moment of inertia of the given figure is 2 ( 625 π 8 5000 9 π + 25 π 2 ( 5 + 20 3 π ) 2 + 625 π 8 ) + 2500 3 625 6 5236.91 2\left (\dfrac{625π}{8}-\dfrac{5000}{9π}+\dfrac{25π}{2}\left (5+\dfrac{20}{3π}\right ) ^2+\dfrac{625π}{8}\right ) +\dfrac{2500}{3}-\dfrac{625}{6}\approx \boxed {5236.91} .

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