Area moments and areas of beam cross‐sections numerically determined

Abstract

Sometimes beam cross‐sections with strange geometries occur. Then it is tedious to calculate the values which are needed for a beam analysis, such as the area, the centre of gravity, the inertia‐, centrifugal‐and polar moments, the position of the main inertia axes, and the resistance moments. It might also be of interest to observe the changing of these values if the cross‐section is rotated. This paper gives a program executing these tasks using numerical methods. The program is in C since this language is of growing interest to modern programmers.

Citation

Stelzer, J.F. (1990), "Area moments and areas of beam cross‐sections numerically determined", Engineering Computations, Vol. 7 No. 3, pp. 258-265. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb023813