Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

momentos negativos

English translation:

negative moment

Added to glossary by Simon Bruni
Oct 19, 2005 15:02
18 yrs ago
Spanish term

momentos negativos

Spanish to English Tech/Engineering Construction / Civil Engineering structural engineering / architecture
From a building specification document:

"En los apoyos, empotramientos y voladizos se colocarán armaduras que absorban los MOMENTOS NEGATIVOS"

Negative Moments exists in Statistics, is it also valid for engineering / architecture? Can you help? thanks.

Discussion

Simon Bruni (asker) Oct 20, 2005:
Hi Maria, apologies, I went with the majority. Glossary amended.
Maria Karra Oct 20, 2005:
Simon, momentum is a different concept in Engineering; I know because it's my field. Your text talks about absorbing a moment, absorbing a force, not a momentum (motion). I don't care about the points, but could you please edit the glossary?

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negative momentum

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neutral Maria Karra : momentum = mass × velocity; not the same as moment
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negative moments

Yes, absolutely. Moments of inertia, bending moments, etc.

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Here are a few examples:
the self-weight gravity loading—the negative bending moment induced by the
pretensioning would have been unopposed by gravity-induced positive bending ...
mceer.buffalo.edu/research/Reconnaissance/Katrina8-28-05/Synthesis_Parking_Structure_Damage/default.asp

Points of negative bending moment on a bending moment diagram show that the beam
is hogging at that point. Contrafleture ...
sbe.napier.ac.uk/projects/structeng/University/Statics/Contrafleture.htm

Applied load is pure bending moment (recall the BMD in Assignment Q.4.3). ...
examine several sections with both positive and negative moment peaks. ...
www.aeromech.usyd.edu.au/structures/mos/Chapter06.pdf
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negative momentum

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Peer comment(s):

neutral Maria Karra : It's not the same. E.g. angular momentum = angular velocity x moment of inertia
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