Discussion
For a thin-walled circular tube of radius r and wall thickness t, the second moment of area about a diameter is approximately
Answer: B
Treating the wall as a thin ring and integrating the square of the distance from the diameter gives pi r cubed t. The cube on the radius is the important part: doubling the radius of a tube at constant wall thickness multiplies its bending stiffness eightfold.
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