I am trying to moment weigh a set of turbine blades, I have a radius from the engine centre line to a gtiven point on the firtree roots, however, to produce a true moment weight for the blade I need to find out the exact centre of gravity. Is this a trial and error or can it be calculated...
If I have 2 different cross sectional test pieces one square and one round, am I able to use the same parameters on both test pieces for destructive testing using area only, or do I have to take into acount the second moment of area? If so can somebody guide me as to the formulae, the test piece...