Beam Section Properties
The following beam cross-section properties are calculated by SpaceClaim and transferred to Ansys.
The area of section:
The X coordinate of the centroid:
The Y coordinate of the centroid:
Moment of inertia about the X axis:
Moment of inertia about the Y axis:
Product of inertia:
The warping constant, shear center and torsional constants are calculated from the warping function. The warping function is the solution to the St. Venant boundary value problem for pure torsion:
Using the Trefftz definition, the shear center and warping constant are calculated purely as a property of the section:
X coordinate of shear center:
Y coordinate of shear center:
Warping constant:
with