Centroids by Integration - Memphis

1 1 Centroids The golfer guessed that his ball landed 20 feet off the fairway. Of course, that was just a rough estimate. Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Centroids When we dealt with distributed loads, we found the magnitude of the force generated by the loading as the area under the loading curve. I gave you the location of the line of action of the force for both a rectangular shape and a right-triangular shape. 2 Centroids by Integration 2 Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Centroids In this meeting, we are going to find out just why that line of action was located where it was.

2 The line of action was located through the centroidial axis of the loading diagram. If we took a centroidial axis in every direction, their intersection point would be known as the centroid 3 Centroids by Integration Centroid as Balance Point Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Centroids by Integration 4 3 Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Centroids By common practice, we refer to the centroidal axis as the centroid but to keep the confusion down we will often speak of a x-centroid or a y-centroid referring to the coordinate along that axis where the centroidal axis intersects the coordinate axis.

3 5 Centroids by Integration Centroidal Axis Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Centroids by Integration 6 4 Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Centroids We are going to look at two mathematical techniques for locating this centroidal axis or centroid. First we will look at what a centroid physically represents 7 Centroids by Integration Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Centroids Consider that we have a series of rectangular loads along an axis xy8 Centroids by Integration 5 Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Centroids We would like to replace this loading with a single point force for analysis purposes xy9 Centroids by Integration Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Centroids We would label each load xyL1L2L3L4L510 Centroids by Integration 6 Wednesday, November 7.

4 2012 Centroids Then find the area of each loading, giving us the force which is located at the center of each area xyL1L2L3L4L511 Centroids by Integration Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Centroids The force generated by each loading is equal to the area under the its loading diagram so nnLFA=xyL1L2L3L4L512 Centroids by Integration 7 Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Centroids The force generated by each loading is equal to the area under the loading diagram so xyF1F2F3F4F5nnLFA=13 Centroids by Integration Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Centroids The total force generated by all these forces is just their sum nnLFFA== xyF1F2F3F4F514 Centroids by Integration 8 Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Centroids But we want to replace these forces with a single force with the same net effect on the system xyF1F2F3F4F5nnLFFA== 15 Centroids by Integration Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Centroids That would mean that it would have to produce the same moment about any point on the system xyF1F2F3F4F5nnLFFA== 16 Centroids by Integration 9 Wednesday, November 7.

5 2012 Centroids If we choose the origin for the moment center, the moment of each of these forces about the origin is equal to the x-distance to the line of action of the force times the force 17 Centroids by Integration Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Centroids For example, for the force(area) F3 xyF1F2F3F4F5x3333 MxF=18 Centroids by Integration 10 Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Centroids The moment for any force is nnnMxF=19 Centroids by Integration Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Centroids Which can be replaced by nnnLMxA=20 Centroids by Integration 11 Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Centroids And the total moment of all the forces(areas)

6 About the origin is 1== intotaliLiMxA21 Centroids by Integration Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Centroids If we now look at the effect of the total force xyFx22 Centroids by Integration 12 Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Centroids The value is known as the x-centroid of the loading xMxF=xyFx23 Centroids by Integration Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Centroids If we substitute the sums developed earlier for the total force and the total moment iiiMxFxF x F== xyFx24 Centroids by Integration 13 Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Centroids And isolating the centroid we have or iiiiiixFxAxFA= 25 Centroids by Integration Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Centroids A general definition for the x-centroid of a series of n areas would be 11niiiniixAxA=== 26 Centroids by Integration 14 Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Centroids If the areas represent forces, the centroid represents a center of force 11niiiniixFxF=== 27 Centroids by Integration Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Centroids If we are considering weight, and x is the axis parallel to the ground.

7 The xbar would be the center of gravity. 11niiiniixFxF=== 28 Centroids by Integration 15 Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Centroids If the areas represent masses, the centroid represents the center of mass 11niiiniixmxm=== 29 Centroids by Integration Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Centroids If the areas are just areas, the centroid represents the center of area or centroid 11niiiniixAxA=== 30 Centroids by Integration 16 Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Centroids This is the general formulation for finding the x-centroid of n areas 11niiiniixAxA=== 31 Centroids by Integration Wednesday.

8 November 7, 2012 Centroids The same type of formula could be found for finding the y centroid 11niiiniixAxA=== 11niiiniiyAyA=== 32 Centroids by Integration 17 Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Centroids Remember that the xi is the x-distance to the centroid of the ith area 11niiiniixAxA=== 33 Centroids by Integration Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Centroids from Functions So far, we have been able to describe the forces (areas) using rectangles and triangles. Now we have to extend that to loadings and areas that are described by mathematical functions.

9 34 Centroids by Integration 18 Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Centroids from Functions For example xy35 Centroids by Integration Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Centroids from Functions This is a distributed load that at any x has a load intensity of w0x2 xyw0x236 Centroids by Integration 19 Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Centroids from Functions w0 is a proportionality constant that will have units to make sure that the units of the product w0x2 will be in force per length units xyw0x237 Centroids by Integration Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Centroids from Functions If we had this type of loading over a distance L, how would we find the equivalent point force and its location?

10 XyL20wx38 Centroids by Integration 20 Riemann Sums Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Centroids by Integration 39 Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Centroids from Functions We could generate a series of rectangles to lay over the curve xyL20wx40 Centroids by Integration 21 Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Centroids from Functions Each rectangle will have some width x xyL20wx x41 Centroids by Integration Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Centroids from Functions And a height based on where the rectangle is positioned xyL20wx x xxaxbw0xb2w0xa242 Centroids by Integration 22 Wednesday, November 7, 2012 xyL20wx xxiw0xi2 Centroids from Functions Generalizing for any rectangle 43 Centroids by Integration Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Centroids from Functions So for n-rectangles the approximate area under the curve would be A=Aii=1n =w0xi2 xi=1n xyL20wx xxiw0xi244 Centroids by Integration 23 Wednesday, November 7.