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
2 22 honeycomb types of cells: octahedron, 0, and tetrahedron, 0. The 2 honeycomb, is fourth in a dimensional series of uniform polytopes, expressed by Coxeter as k series. The final is a paracompact hyperbolic honeycomb, 3. Each progressive uniform polytope is constructed from the previous as its vertex figure. The 2 honeycomb is third in another dimensional series 2. 2 22 honeycomb In geometry, the 2 honeycomb is a uniform tessellation of the six-dimensional Euclidean space. It can be represented by the Schläfli symbol {3,3,3}. It is constructed from 2 facets and has a 1 vertex figure, with 54 2 polytopes around