Published June 1, 2010
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Journal article
Simulation of the honeycomb construction process
Creators
- 1. Institute Of Structural Mechanics, China Academy Of Engineering Physics, MIANYANG SICHUAN 621900 (China)
Description
The construction process of the honeycomb by bees is an astonishing process. The original structure which the bees built is nothing more than a lot of rough cylinders. But keeping the beeswax semi-flow for a certain time, those rough structures become perfect hexahedral columns. A modified, simplified particle method was used here to simulate the semi-flow state of the material. Although the parameters used here were still rather subjective, the simulation still could demonstrate some behavior of that sort of material like beeswax. And the method that the bees used to build their honey comb, could be an efficient method to imitate when we are trying to manufacture cellular materials.
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1757-899X/10/1/012143Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- IOP Conference Series. Materials Science and Engineering (Online)
- Journal Volume
- 10
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Journal Page Range
- [4 p.]
- ISSN
- 1757-899X
Conference
- Title
- 9. world congress on computational mechanics; 4. Asian Pacific congress on computational mechanics
- Dates
- 19-23 Jul 2010
- Place
- Sydney (Australia)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 44042654
- Subject category
- S42: ENGINEERING; S36: MATERIALS SCIENCE;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- BEES; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; CONSTRUCTION; CYLINDERS; MECHANICAL STRUCTURES
- Descriptors DEC
- ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTS; INVERTEBRATES; SIMULATION