Honeycomb structure Honeycomb structure Honeycomb structures are natural or man-made structures that have the geometry of a honeycomb to allow the minimization of the amount of used material to reach minimal weight and minimal material cost. The geometry of honeycomb structures can vary widely but the common feature of all such structures is an array of hollow cells formed between thin vertical walls. The cells are often columnar and hexagonal in shape. A honeycomb shaped structure provides a material with minimal density and relative high out-of-plane compression properties and out-of-plane shear properties. Man-made honeycomb structural materials are commonly made by layering a
Order-5 dodecahedral honeycomb The runcitruncated order-5 dodecahedral honeycomb, , has truncated dodecahedron, icosidodecahedron and pentagonal prism cells, with a distorted square pyramid vertex figure. The omnitruncated order-5 dodecahedral honeycomb, , has truncated icosidodecahedron and decagonal prism cells, with a disphenoid vertex figure. Order-5 dodecahedral honeycomb The order-5 dodecahedral honeycomb is one of four compact regular space-filling tessellations (or honeycombs) in hyperbolic 3-space. With Schläfli symbol {5,3,5}, it has five dodecahedral cells around each edge, and each vertex is surrounded by twenty dodecahedra. Its vertex figure is a regular icosahedron. The dihedral angle of a Euclidean regular dodecahedron is ~116.6°, so no more than