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
Cubic-octahedral honeycomb There are 5 related uniform honeycombs generated within the same family, generated with 2 or more rings of the Coxeter group : , , , , . The rectified cubic-octahedral honeycomb is a compact uniform honeycomb, constructed from cuboctahedron, and rhombicuboctahedron cells, in a cuboid vertex figure. It has a Coxeter diagram . The cyclotruncated cubic-octahedral honeycomb is a compact uniform honeycomb, constructed from truncated cube, octahedron cells, in a square antiprism vertex figure. It has a Coxeter diagram . It can be seen as somewhat analogous to the trioctagonal tiling with truncated square and triangle facets: The cyclotruncated octahedral-cubic