Engineeing Dynamics - Inertia Dyad of Half Cylinder

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The discussion revolves around a challenging project in a junior-level dynamics class, where the professor has assigned a complex task involving the derivation of mass center expressions and inertia matrices for a half cylinder and a thin half shell. Students express frustration over unclear instructions and inadequate support from teaching assistants and tutors, who also struggle to reproduce the correct answers. The project requires the use of Mathematica, but the primary difficulty lies in understanding the theoretical concepts that were not adequately covered in lectures. The poster attempts to derive the inertia matrix but feels lost in the calculations related to volume and mass. Overall, the lack of guidance and the advanced nature of the material are significant barriers to completing the assignment.
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I'm getting desperate. The professor has assigned a project and has not clearly explained how to derive the answers. I'm doing the best I can but his TA's and recommended tutors for the class are always incapable of reproducing the answers either. It's a junior level dynamics class, but he's actually turned the class into a machine dynamics class taught in senior or masters level. The work needs to be done in mathematica, but all I need is help with theory since that's the part we don't learn in lecture.

Anyways, here is the question...

Homework Statement



Develop the mass center expression and the inertia matrix and inertia dyadic for a half cylinder, then let the inner diameter approach the outer diameter to develop the same for a thin half shell. Use Mathematica for your work.

Homework Equations



Ii,i = ∫m(rj2+rk2)dm

The Attempt at a Solution



First is the Inertia-matrix of the half cylinder. I'm not sure how to derive all the terms, but I did my best.

{y2 + z2, -x y, -x z}
{-x y, x2 + z2, -y z}
{-x z, -y z, x2 + y2}

Then I write my position vector:

BrP = x b[1] + y b[2] + z b[3]

Where B is a point in the body frame, P is the endpoint under evaluation, and r is the vector r. b[1,2,3] are unit vectors in the body frame.

Now is where I think I went wrong, if not before. The Volume is:

V = ∫0W0H-L/2L/2rdxdydz

Then mass is:

m = ∫∫∫ρrdxdydz

So center of mass is:

C = (1/m)∫∫∫ρr(x,y,z)rdxdydz

Then I get lost even more...

S.O.S
 
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