Ansys DesignModeler – Tetrakaidecahedron

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March 27, 2020

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The tetrakaidecahedron (shown below) is a polyhedron studied in conjunction with foams and minimal surface area, space-filling shapes. The tetrakaidecahedron has 14 faces (6 quadrilateral and 8 hexagonal) and 24 vertices [1].

 

In 1887, Lord Kelvin proposed that the tetrakaidecahedron was the best shape for packing equal-sized objects together to fill space with minimal surface area. Kelvin thought about this problem in the context of the bubbles which make up a foam [1]. Kelvin’s proposed tetrakaidecahedron actually had some slightly curved faces which improved upon the typical flat-faced polyhedron pictured above

 

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a tetrakaidecahedron using Ansys DesignModeler.

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