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 and its dual triangular pyramidille. Four cells exist around each vertex: The "cantitruncated cubic honeycomb" can be orthogonally projected into the euclidean plane with various symmetry arrangements. Cells can be shown in two different symmetries. The linear Coxeter diagram form can be drawn with one color for each cell type. The bifurcating diagram form can be drawn with two types (colors) of truncated cuboctahedron cells alternating. The dual of the "cantitruncated cubic honeycomb" is called a triangular pyramidille, with Coxeter diagram, . This honeycomb cells represents the fundamental domains of formula_2 symmetry. A cell can be as 1/24 of a