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What is radius of gyration and where is it used?

    • July 31, 2020 at 4:24 pm
      prajput
      Ansys Employee
      What is radius of gyration and where is it used?
    • July 31, 2020 at 4:25 pm
      Ashish Khemka
      Forum Moderator
      Radius gyration is distance between the mass center of the body to the rotation axis. It can be used to design a section of irregular shape where the mass center is aligned with the axis of rotation. It is also used in column buckling analysis.
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