You can consider the radius of gyration (we usually call it radius of
inertia) as the distance from a given body (i.e. section) axis to a
material point where you could concentrate all matter of the section
so that the said point would rotate about the said axis with the same
inertia as your full section.
Regards,
Alex
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Richard Calvert<RichardC@lbbe.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know the origin of this term? Why it refers to a radius and/or
> what is gyrating? It just seems to specific to be simply obscure… yet I've
> never found anyone who knows. So, anyone on here know?
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