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US 10,427,834 B2Granted
Structural element
AssigneeGridesic Holdings Limited
InventorTristan Melland
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Abstract
A structural element (10) for forming a panel, with an upper plane (12) and lower plane (14) which are parallel and deformed along their plane at intervals by pods (16) which extrude toward the opposing plane with their internal faces mating to one another.
Claims20
A structural element in the form of a structural panel, the structural element comprising:
- two outer sheets that act as the tensile and compression chords, with the two outer sheets comprising multiple inwardly orientated pods throughout the structural panel, the inwardly orientated pods having apexes that are joined together, which pods have a close proximity to one another in order to be mechanically interdependent creating a double depth space-frame lattice type matrix where loads placed on a surface of the structural panel are resisted and transferred through the chords and with the inwardly orientated pods acting as interconnecting diagonal braces such that the loads are transmitted along the surfaces of the pods in multiple directions and distributed throughout the structural element,
- wherein walls of a side cross-section of joined pods form diamond beam formations with adjacent joined pods such that multiple diamond beam structures are formed in the structural element in the negative spaces immediately between pairs of joined pods,
- wherein the walls of the side cross-section of each of the inwardly orientated pods comprise straight sides,
- wherein the pods are frusto-conical in shape, and
- wherein mouths of the pods are round and arranged in rows, adjacent rows being staggered to define a grid with centerlines for the pods at 120° from one another, and the pods being spaced apart between 1 and 11% of the pod diameter.
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A structural element in the form of a structural panel, the structural element comprising:
- two outer sheets that act as the tensile and compression chords, with the two outer sheets comprising multiple inwardly orientated pods throughout the structural panel, the inwardly orientated pods having apexes that are joined together, which pods have a close proximity to one another in order to be mechanically interdependent creating a double depth space-frame lattice type matrix where loads placed on a surface of the structural panel are resisted and transferred through the chords and with the inwardly oriented pods acting as interconnecting diagonal braces such that the loads are transmitted along the surfaces of the pods in multiple directions such that the load is distributed throughout the structural element,
- wherein walls of a side cross section of joined pods form diamond beam formations with adjacent joined pods such that multiple diamond beam structures are formed in the structural element in the negative spaces immediately between pairs of joined pods,
- wherein the walls of the side cross-section of each of the inwardly orientated pods comprise straight sides,
- wherein mouths of the pods are triangular and are arranged with interfacing sides so as to occupy substantially the whole of an upper reference plane of a first of the two outer sheets, leaving a grid for the upper reference plane where the pods meet at upper edges of the pods.
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A structural element in the form of a structural panel, the structural element comprising:
- two outer sheets that act as the tensile and compression chords, with the two outer sheets comprising multiple inwardly orientated pods throughout the structural panel, the inwardly orientated pods having apexes that are joined together, which pods have a close proximity one to another in order to be mechanically interdependent creating a double depth space-frame lattice type matrix where loads placed on a surface of the structural panel are resisted and transferred through the chords and with the inwardly oriented pods acting as interconnecting diagonal braces such that the loads are transmitted along the surfaces of the pods in multiple directions such that the load is distributed throughout the structural element,
- wherein walls of a side cross section of joined pods form diamond beam formations with adjacent joined pods such that multiple diamond beam structures are formed in the structural element in the negative spaces immediately between pairs of joined pods,
- wherein mouths of the pods are intermeshing regular hexagons and are arranged with interfacing sides so as to occupy substantially the whole of an upper reference plane of a first of the two outer sheets, leaving a grid for the upper reference plane where the pods meet at upper edges of the pods.
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