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Centroid and moments of an area using a digitizerThe centroid and moments of an area program provides the centroid, moments of inertia, product of inertia, radii of gyration, and area of any closed planar geometric figure. The figure must be available in graphic form and is digitized once with chart digitizer (graphic tablet). The digitizer origin may be set anywhere on the digitizer table. After digitizing, fifteen quantities are calculated and displayed: (1) area (2) moment of inertia of area with respect to digitizer x-axis, (3) moment of inertia of area with respect to digitizer y-axis, (4) product of inertia of area with respect to digitizer axes, (5) first moment of x for digitizer axes, (6) first moment of y for digitizer axes, (7) x coordinate of centroid, (8) y coordinate of centroid, (9) moment of area inertia of with respect to x axis through centroid, (10) moment of inertia of area with respect to y axis through centroid, (11) product inertia of area with respect to x and y axes through centroid, (12) polar moment of inertia of area around centroid, (13) radius of gyration about digitizer x axis, (14) radius of gyration about digitizer y-axis; and (15) variance in the x-direction.
Document ID
19770004775
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Technical Memorandum (TM)
Authors
Patch, R. W.
(NASA Lewis Research Center Cleveland, OH, United States)
Date Acquired
September 3, 2013
Publication Date
October 1, 1976
Subject Category
Computer Programming And Software
Report/Patent Number
NASA-TM-X-73528
E-8947
Report Number: NASA-TM-X-73528
Report Number: E-8947
Accession Number
77N11718
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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