A hollow rectangular (box) section has outer width B = 260 mm, outer height H = 400 mm and a uniform wall thickness t = 20 mm. Find its second moment of area Ix about the horizontal centroidal axis x.
Centroid & second moment of area worksheet with answers
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Answer key
- 1. Ix = 531.3 × 10⁶ mm⁴
- 2. Ix = 0.5847 × 10⁶ mm⁴
- 3. Ix = 64.4 × 10⁶ mm⁴
- 4. Ix = 223.5 × 10⁶ mm⁴
- 5. σj = 259 MPa
- 6. Ix = 65.69 × 10⁶ mm⁴
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