Authors: Russell C. Hibbeler
ISBN-13: 978-0133915426
See our solution for Question 97P from Chapter 10 from Hibbeler's Engineering Mechanics.
We are provided with the following data:
The smaller radius of cone is ${r_s} = 0.2{\rm{ m}}$.
The larger radius of cone is ${r_l} = 0.4{\rm{ m}}$.
The height of the centroid of cone is ${h_3} = 0.6{\rm{ m}}$.
The height of the frustum of cone is ${h_2} = 0.8{\rm{ m}}$.
The density of the material is $\rho = 200{\rm{ kg/}}{{\rm{m}}^3}$.
We are required to determine the moment of inertia of the frustum of cone.
The diagram can be represented as,

Here, ${r_s}\,{\rm{and}}\;{r_l}$ represents the radius of smaller circle and radius of larger circle, ${h_1}$ represents the total height of the cone, ${h_2}$ represent the height of frustum of cone and ${h_3}$ represents the height of centroid of the cone.
To find the total height of the cone, we use basic proportionality theorem of similar triangles.
Consider the unknown length of the cone as x.
\[\frac{x}{{{h_2} + x}} = \frac{{{r_s}}}{{{r_l}}}\]On plugging the values in the above relation, we get,
\[\begin{array}{c} \frac{x}{{0.8{\rm{ m}} + x}} = \frac{{0.2{\rm{ m}}}}{{0.4\;{\rm{m}}}}\\ \frac{x}{{0.8{\rm{ m}} + x}} = 0.5{\rm{ m}}\\ x = 0.5{\rm{ m}}\left( {0.8{\rm{ m}} + x} \right)\\ x = 0.4{\rm{ m}} + \left( {0.5{\rm{ m}}} \right)x \end{array}\]On further solving the above equation,
\[\begin{array}{c} x - \left( {0.5{\rm{ m}}} \right)x = 0.4\,{\rm{m}}\\ \left( {0.5{\rm{ m}}} \right)x = 0.4\,{\rm{m}}\\ x = \frac{{0.4{\rm{ m}}}}{{0.5{\rm{ m}}}}\\ x = 0.8{\rm{ m}} \end{array}\]To find the total height of the cone, we will use the relation.
\[{h_1} = {h_2} + x\]On plugging the values in the above relation, we get,
\[\begin{array}{l} {h_1} = 0.8{\rm{ m}} + {\rm{0}}{\rm{.8 m}}\\ {h_1} = 1.6{\rm{ m}} \end{array}\]To find the moment of inertia of frustum of cone about z-axis, we will use the relationship,
\[\begin{array}{l} {I_z} = \frac{3}{{10}}\left[ {\frac{1}{3}\pi r_l^2{h_1}\rho } \right]r_l^2 - \frac{3}{{10}}\left[ {\frac{1}{3}\pi r_s^2{h_2}\rho } \right]r_s^2 - \frac{3}{{10}}\left[ {\frac{1}{3}\pi r_l^2{h_3}\rho } \right]r_l^2\\ {I_z} = \frac{3}{{10}}\left( {\frac{1}{3}} \right)\pi \rho \left[ {r_l^4{h_1} - r_s^4{h_2} - r_l^4{h_3}} \right] \end{array}\]On plugging the values in the above relation, we get,
\[\begin{array}{l} {I_z} = \frac{3}{{10}}\left( {\frac{1}{3}} \right)\left( {200{\rm{ }}\frac{{{\rm{kg}}}}{{{{\rm{m}}^{\rm{3}}}}}} \right)\pi \left[ {{{\left( {0.4{\rm{ m}}} \right)}^4}\left( {1.6{\rm{ m}}} \right) - {{\left( {0.2{\rm{ m}}} \right)}^4}\left( {0.8{\rm{ m}}} \right) - {{\left( {0.4{\rm{ m}}} \right)}^4}\left( {0.6{\rm{ m}}} \right)} \right]\\ {I_z} = 20\pi \frac{{{\rm{kg}}}}{{{{\rm{m}}^{\rm{3}}}}}\left[ {0.0256\left( {1.6} \right){\rm{ }}{{\rm{m}}^5} - 0.0016\left( {0.8} \right){\rm{ }}{{\rm{m}}^5} - 0.0256\left( {0.6} \right){\rm{ }}{{\rm{m}}^5}} \right]\\ {I_z} = 20\pi \frac{{{\rm{kg}}}}{{{{\rm{m}}^{\rm{3}}}}}\left[ {0.04096{\rm{ }}{{\rm{m}}^5} - 0.00128{\rm{ }}{{\rm{m}}^5} - 0.01536{\rm{ }}{{\rm{m}}^5}} \right]\\ {I_z} = 20\pi \frac{{{\rm{kg}}}}{{{{\rm{m}}^{\rm{3}}}}}\left[ {0.02432{\rm{ }}{{\rm{m}}^5}} \right]\\ {I_z} = 1.528{\rm{ kg}} \cdot {{\rm{m}}^2} \end{array}\]