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 in a rectangular pyramid vertex figure. It has a Coxeter diagram . The omnitruncated cubic-octahedral honeycomb is a compact uniform honeycomb, constructed from truncated cuboctahedron cells, in a rhombic disphenoid vertex figure. It has a Coxeter diagram with [2,2] (order 4) extended symmetry in its rhombic disphenoid vertex figure. Cubic-octahedral honeycomb In the geometry of hyperbolic 3-space, the cube-octahedron honeycomb is a compact uniform honeycomb, constructed from cube, octahedron, and cuboctahedron cells, in a rhombicuboctahedron vertex figure. It has a single-ring Coxeter diagram, , and is named by its two regular cells. Wide-angle perspective views: It contains a subgroup H2