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= List of second moments of area
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The second moment of area, also known as the area moment of inertia or the second moment of inertia, is a measure of an object's resistance to bending or flexural stress. It represents how the area is distributed about a given axis. The second moment of area is important in engineering fields such as structural and mechanical engineering for analyzing materials' flexural behavior.