MOMENTS-II: A Computer Program to Calculate Moments and Products of Inertia of Asymmetric Objects

Abstract

This report describes the computer program MOMENTS-II, which is a greatly modified and extended version of the computer program MOMENTS, described in Picatinny Arsenal Technical Report 4143, July 1971. The present report supersedes the previous publication. MOMENTS-II is capable of calculating the components of the inertia tensor (moments and products of inertia) of combinations of arbitrarily located and oriented asymmetric objects with respect to arbitrary rectangular systems; as well as of calculating other physical properties such as mass, center of gravity and principal axes of these objects. The report also describes the model employed and the analysis leading to the derivations of the formulae used by MOMENTS-II, and for convenience is divided into three chapters containing information specifically directed towards the program user, programmer, and analyst respectively. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA025409

Entities

People

  • Edward B. Lacher

Organizations

  • Picatinny Arsenal

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Cartesian Coordinates
  • Center Of Gravity
  • Computations
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Eigenvalues
  • Materials
  • Moment Of Inertia
  • Notation
  • Physical Properties
  • Right Angles
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional

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  • Computer Science.
  • Control Systems Engineering.