 | Frank Eugene Kidder - Architecture - 1892 - 1032 pages
...represents the destructive energy of the load on the beam or truss at any point for which the bending-moment is computed. The moment of a force around any given...loads are all vertical and the arms horizontal. The bending-moment, at any cross-section of a beam is the algebraic sum of the moments of the forces tending... | |
 | Frank Eugene Kidder - Architecture - 1892 - 1058 pages
...the destructive energy of the load on the beam or truss at any point for which the liending-momeiit is computed. The moment of a force around any given...axis, or the product of the force into its arm. In a l>eam the forces or loads are all vertical and the amis horizontal. The bending-momcnt at any cross-section... | |
 | Agriculture - 1905 - 912 pages
...known that the moment of any force about a point is equal to the product of the amount of the force and the perpendicular distance between the line of action of the force and the point around which it turns or tends to turn. The force P tends to turn the retaining wall about the... | |
 | 1908 - 474 pages
...center of gravity, is producing a moment, and has a rotative effect. The lever arm of each moment is the perpendicular distance between the line of action of the force and the center of gravity of the body. Every such moment tends to produce rotation in the body, and as rotation... | |
 | Harry Eaton Smith - Mechanics - 1913 - 296 pages
...to the line of action of that resolved part. This " shortest distance " is the same as the shortest distance between the line of action of the force and the axis of moments. A sign should be prefixed, indicating the direction of the turning effort, -fo^ - Q I•... | |
 | Hugh Charles Herbert Candy - 1918 - 704 pages
...lever. The power of a force to produce rotation depends upon (1) the magnitude of the force, and (2) the perpendicular distance between the line of action of the force and the point, or line, about which rotation takes place. This power is called the moment of the force about... | |
 | Berger manufacturing company, Canton, O. - Architectural metal-work - 1921 - 444 pages
...Moments of Forces The moment of a force about any point is the product of the intensity of the force by the perpendicular distance between the line of action of the force and the point about which the moment is taken, or the moment of force about a point is the measure of the tendency... | |
 | Clarence Walter Hudson, Edward Jacob Squire - Graphic statics - 1923 - 114 pages
...distance of the line of action of the force from that point. The product of the magnitude of a force and the perpendicular distance between the line of action of the force and a given point, is called the moment of the force about that point. The point about which the moment... | |
 | Edward Rose Maurer, Raymond Jefferson Roark - Mechanics - 1925 - 388 pages
...specified line. The moment or torque of a force with respect to a point is the product of the force and the perpendicular distance between the line of action of the force and the point. The perpendicular distance is called the arm of the force and the point is called a center or... | |
 | Dortha Esch, Marvin Lepley - 1974 - 138 pages
...that the force Fc is applied to the beater at an angle less than 90 degrees and that the force arm (perpendicular distance between the line of action of the force and the axis) is 2 feet. - force required at Fa = force required at Fc Forces Fb and Fc are both applied to the beater... | |
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It is measured by the product of the magnitude of the force and the perpendicular distance between the line of action of the force and the axis of rotation. 
