Stress steering structure

专利名称：Stress steering structure发明人：Charles R. Owens申请号：US08/801155申请日：19970218公开号：US05816009A公开日：19981006

摘要：A load bearing structure having a set of uniform voids functions to resolve theforces imposed by developing compression in the material having the voids andminimizing the amount of tension developed in the material. The voids are deployed toencompass a matrix of points arranged such that each point is spaced an equal distancefrom twelve and only twelve adjacent matrix points. If the structure is considered to becomposed of a closely packed set of hypothetical rhombic dodecahedra (RD) and thefour-edge vertices of each of those hypothetical RDs is truncated, the result will be a setof cubic voids. The center of each of those cubic voids will define the matrix referred toabove and the cubic voids will serve to provide the optimum resolution of stress whichminimizes the development of tension in the material. One in four of the hypotheticalRDs can be eliminated achieving the same force resolution in a structure containing lessmaterial. The shape and size of the voids can be varied with only slight loss in optimumstress resolution. Some voids can be omitted with only slight loss of optimum stressresolution.

申请人：HEXAS LLC

代理机构：McAulay Nissen Goldberg Kiel & Hand, LLP

更多信息请下载全文后查看