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 honeycomb uniform honeycombs constructed by the formula_1 Coxeter group. The symmetry can be multiplied by the symmetry of rings in the Coxeter–Dynkin diagrams: <HR> The rectified cubic honeycomb or rectified cubic cellulation is a uniform space-filling tessellation (or honeycomb) in Euclidean 3-space. It is composed of octahedra and cuboctahedra in a ratio of 1:1. John Horton Conway calls this honeycomb a cuboctahedrille, and its dual an oblate octahedrille. The "rectified cubic honeycomb" can be orthogonally projected into the euclidean plane with various symmetry arrangements. There are four uniform colorings for the cells of this honeycomb with reflective symmetry, listed by their