Submitting Campus
Daytona Beach
Department
Aerospace Engineering
Document Type
Patent
Publication/Presentation Date
12-19-2017
Abstract/Description
A vented honeycomb structure with a plurality of honeycomb cells arranged in a hierarchical order and having a plurality of truss walls, each truss wall including a plurality of members. The vented honeycomb structure is fabricated by joining a plurality of sheets of trusses using any one of an expansion, a corrugation, and a slotting process. Fabrication can also occur by deposition, casting, additive, extrusion, or aligning and joining methods. The honeycomb cells, truss walls, truss wall openings, and truss wall members can be functionally graded.
Patent Number
US 9,845,600 B2
Date of Patent
12-19-2017
Assignee
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Application Number
13/537,252
Date Filed
6-29-2012
Scholarly Commons Citation
Sypeck, D. J. (2017). Highly vented truss wall honeycomb structures (U.S. Patent No. 9,845,600 B2). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://patents.google.com/patent/US9845600B2/en
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