How to Keep Our Brains Active at Home by Learning c6xty – C60 – Geometry
Introduction: This article is about keeping our brains active while sheltering at home. We talked to an expert Kirby Urner…
Navigating the Lattice
Curated by Kirby! You have no doubt played a 2D game on a grid of squares, chess or checkers for…
Generating the Flextegrity Lattice
Our purpose here is to elaborate a classic Python framework for storing and writing geometric information in a variety of…
Stay Prepared For Earthquakes With Proper Measures
We all know that natural disasters are sudden and dangerously powerful. There are many factors that make natural disasters a…
Slope Protection & Erosion Control Handled By C6XTY
For all major and minor construction projects, slope protection, soil stabilization, erosion control, and earth retention systems are some significant…
Kirby’s Rhombic Triacontahedron
The rhombic triacontahedron (RT) dissects into 120 such modules, left and right handed. Meanwhile, the regular tetrahedron may be sliced…
Explore Ground Stabilization Methods & Load Support System
Ground stabilization is the most critical chapter of Geotechnical Engineering along with a load support system. That’s why more than…
3D Printing Of Geometric Lattice Takes The Load
Additive Manufacturing has already changed the conventional methods of designing and manufacturing process. And 3D Geometry is one of the…
Geometry with Kirby – VUCA
VUCA (latest curriculum writing) integrating the concept of “risk” even mentioning “Chief Risk Officer” and VUCA, in this special curriculum:…
Nature’s Geometry At Work With C6XTY
Nature has already given us everything we need. But it is the human mind that wants to comprehend more than…
Visualization with Kirby Urner Cuboctahedron dual Rhombic Dodecahedron
Thinking through the shapes with all of the math working precisely, enters Kirby Urner, holding a diagram of the geometry,…
Advanced Polyhedral Materials
Flextegrity, Inc. makes possible advanced polyhedral materials that anticipate and meet the comprehensive demands of civil engineering applications, disaster-resistant housing,…
Mathematical Model of Icosahedral Materials
by Mark A. Martin, Ph.D. August 2006, © Flextegrity, Inc. 2006, 2007 Introduction An icosahedral material is a regular threedimensional array…
Technology Differentiation / Material Uniqueness
Flextegrity’s innovative micro-architecture, which capitalizes on the dynamic equilibrium inherent in the complementary coexistence of tension and compression, offers material…
Stress Analysis Icosahedron Beam
Finite Element Stress Analysis of Icosahedron Beam by Ross Engineering, Prepared for: Mr. Sam Lanahan, Flextegrity Abstract This is a…
Omni-extensible Anisotropic Topologies
In this article we present Flextegrity’s patent – arrays that vary anisotropically, omni-topologically, creating myriad hybrid materials. Arrays and lattices…
Compression Study of Open Faced Icosahedron
ICOSAHEDRON COMPRESSION STUDY Introduction and Background: The project started with an initial compression model of a symmetric icosahedron array modeled…
Nanoscale Biological Icosahedral Structures
In nature, identical, spontaneously assembling protein subunits tend to form symmetrical, minimum-energy shapes. Certain shapes are well-suited for microbiological tasks…
Soil Stabilized Pipe Support Solutions
In this article we will explain about the contribution of Flextegrity to Bio sensitive pipe support for soil stabilization. Flextegrity’s…
Market Opportunities
Positioning: Flextegrity, Inc. is the inventor/developer/manufacturer of specialty structural materials that anticipate and meet the comprehensive demands of disaster-resistant housing,…
Microstructure Within Macrostructure
Leverage of 'microstructural' shape factors within conventionally strong "macro-structural" forms such as the I-beam enables maximum structural efficiency.
Strength-to-Weight Advantage
Strength-to-weight ratio is inherently high even before material choice. Like the strongest “traditional” materials (wood, steel, and reinforced concrete), the…
Regular Network with Addressable Locations
The omni-extensible pattern of repeating polyhedral units combined with the ability for continuous connectivity create rich opportunities for wired or…
Increased Surface Area
The open 3-D geometry creates a regular, stable matrices with increased internal "active" surface area, capable of being "loaded" with…
Local Deformation with Global Stiffness
Response to applied stress is one of local deformation while maintaining global stiffness due to integrity of compression/tension synergy within…
Multi-Axial Tensile “Web”
Internal interconnecting matrix can be bias-positioned to create an intrinsic and interpenetrating ‘torsion box’ microstructure providing exceptional robustness to torsion…
Gradient from Stiff to Flexible
The geometry overrides conventional limitations on inherent stiffness or flexibility! A precisely defined flexibility and/or expansion "gradient" or "zone" can…
Anisotropic Smart Sidewalk
Omni-directional control of material and size enables customized, integrated “hybrid” solutions using components of differing raw materials. Material/product design can…
Improved Coefficient of Friction
The Flextegrity geometry’s multi-axial tensile network dramatically reduces the slippage and shear that can plague conventional slope stabilization techniques. A…
Scalable
The proprietary geometry is infinitely scalable in unit size (from nano- to mega-scale) and in frequency (number of polyhedral elements…
Open Space / Permeable
Material applications of the technology are permeable, breathable and self-draining without sacrificing toughness and structural integrity. Open spaces within and…
Omni Extensible
Omni-Extensible is one possible property that a material built utilizing the C6XTY technology can have. It means- the potential for…
Tensegrity to Flextegrity an evolutionary path
From Tensegrity to Flextegrity (aka, “How in the heck did you ever think this up??”) Inventors with strikingly novel concepts…
Revealing the valuable Geodesic Dome
Geodesic Dome is a hemispherical structure built from many triangles, which was named and popularised in the US by Buckminster…
Bucky Balls and C6XTY Innovative Technology
-What is a Bucky Ball? Bucky ball is a spheric allotrope of carbon, with the formula of C60. It’s full…
First Thursday – Portland Gallery walk – An Evening with Sam Lanahan
[alert style=”success”]Featured on KGW8[/alert] Come visit the Lattice Gallery on November 7th. Experience the innovations and meet the innovator, Sam…
Innovator Sam Lanahan Has Air Traffic Over His House Because Of His Patented Lattice
Innovator Sam Lanahan has air traffic over his house because of his patented lattice using the mathematics of the carbon…
Sam Lanahan Lecture On The Evolution of Synthetic Lattices
At Lattice Gallery, Portland, Oregon, on 10/13/2019 at 3:00 PM, Flextegrity presents “The Evolution of Synthetic Lattices by Sam Lanahan.”…
The Lattice Gallery Portland presents Explorations in Dynamic Equilibrium
The Lattice Gallery Grand Opening: October 3rd, First Thursday, at 316 NW Broadway Portland, Oregon. Art gallery focused on the…
Lecture by inventor Sam Lanahan Building in Tension
Building in Tension The Evolution of Synthetic Lattices [vector_icon icon=”graduation-cap” color=”#ba1d71″]A lecture by inventor Sam Lanahan “The Evolution of Synthetic…
Sam Lanahan First Thursdays at The Lattice Gallery – Portland
Every First Thursday: [button color=”orange” link=”/lattice-gallery-portland” size=”default” icon_before=”connectdevelop” target=”_self” block=”false”]October 3rd[/button] [button color=”green” link=”/lattice-gallery-portland/” size=”default” icon_before=”music” target=”_self” block=”false”]November 7th[/button] [button color=”teal” link=”lattice-gallery-portland”…
Creative Visions
Materials and design, whether in architecture or consumer products, are inextricably interwoven and co-influential. As Patrick Kruithof so aptly states…
C6XTY – building and creating with nature
What is it? [vector_icon icon=”connectdevelop” color=”#35930a” size=”1.5em”] Flextegrity has developed and patented a 3-dimensional tensile lattice that is easily constructed…
Video of C6XTY at the international A’19 Conference
Sam Lanahan presented for three days in Vegas at the Architecture Expo The C6XTY Exhibit at the Architecture Expo in…
How C6XTY Synthetic Lattice Can Shape Our Smart Cities
Lattices are both a framework made of metal or metal strips and a regular geometrical arrangement of atoms or molecules…
Booth 649 – AIA Conference on Architecture
Join us in Las Vegas June 6–8, 2019 BOOTH 649 AIA Conference on Architecture June 6-8, 2019 Architecture Expo June…
Art & Design
Flextegrity is proud to announce the new C6XTY line of ‘Structural Fabrics’—Based on the geometry of the Bucky Ball—structural fabrics…
Geo-Synthetics
Synthetic lattices are based on the geometry of “Bucky Fullerenes”—or the carbon 60 molecule (soccer ball), that are used to…
Architecture
Flextegrity is proud to announce the new C6XTY line of ‘Structural Fabrics’—Based on the geometry of the Bucky Ball—structural fabrics…
C6XTY at ACS – Booth 823 – New Orleans
Come see us LIVE at Booth #823 MARCH 18 – 22, 2018 | New Orleans, LA ACS National Meeting &…
Innovations in Structural Optimization
Flextegrity, Inc. is creating and developing advanced polyhedral materials that anticipate and meet the comprehensive demands of civil engineering applications,…
How to Assemble the C6XTY
https://youtu.be/9tzUoRGSDYE —– TEXT FROM YOUTUBE TRANSCRIPT I’m going to introduce 00:04 you to how to construct the C6XTY ball 00:08…
Stir Your Creativity!
Activate your creativity with C6XTY. Imagine using C6XTY fabric to restore a reef…
Structurally Optimized Geometry Derived from Nature
We can create entirely new categories of materials and structures that are both strong / lightweight and accomplish the important…
Roadways/Bridges/ Stormwater Management
From roads to bridges, stormwater is something that can wreak havoc if the problem is not dealt with immediately. In…
Intelligent Streets & Sidewalks
Just imagine how amazing you will feel when every street you walk has smart and intelligent features. From strong pavement…
Artificial Reef
Think about a strong, bio-friendly, and open-architecture that supports the life of flora and fauna. When the artificial reef is…
dwell on design – booth 1914
We will be the high point of your dwell experience. See us at BOOTH 1914. Dwell on Design, presented in…
Materials Properties slides
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Innovations – chapter 5
Flextegrity: Innovations in Structural Optimization View Book Online Chapter 2 Chapter 5 Download PDF Chapter 2 Chapter 5 Purchase Book…
Innovations – chapter 2
Flextegrity: Innovations in Structural Optimization View Book Online Chapter 2 Chapter 5 Download PDF Chapter 2 Chapter 5 Purchase Book…
Strength to Weight Advantage
Strength-to-weight ratio is inherently high even before material choice. Like the strongest “traditional” materials (wood, steel, and reinforced concrete), the…
Sawtooth Equatorial Molding
Sawtooth Equatorial Molding
Flexible Material in Torsion
Flexible Material in Torsion
Catalytic Converter
There are millions of cars running on roads which are causing air pollution. As sustainable practices are being invented to…
Building-scale Mega-Architectures
From building to scaling the mega architectures, how the C6XTY is offering the best technique to scale the mega buildings…
Architectural & Lighting Features
Lighting that serves and improves engineering. Assuming an indispensable job in the manner individuals encounter and get engineering, light can…
Artificial Muscle / Bio-Materials
C6XTY has researched the new geometry to create materials and structures with respect to the weight. With the use of…
Jumbled Florets
A simple system that incorporates both tension and compression into a single element.
Assembled Block: Ring & Mortar Lattice
Assembled Block: Ring & Mortar Lattice
Partial Assembly: Ring & Mortar Lattice
Partial Assembly: Ring & Mortar Lattice
Side View: Ring & Mortar Layers
Side View: Ring & Mortar Layers
Stacked Ring & Mortar Layers
Stacked Ring & Mortar Layers
Stacking of Icosahedral Rings
Stacking of Icosahedral Rings It’s not just a good idea, it’s natures way. Consider stacking various C6XTY lattices in order…
Top View: Icosa Hex Ring & Mortar
Top View: Icosa Hex Ring & Mortar
Top View: Icosa Hex Ring & Mortar
Top View: Icosa Hex Ring & Mortar
Icosahedral Hex Ring & Mortar
Icosahedral Hex Ring & Mortar
v.4.0 Basic Hex Ring
v.4.0 Basic Hex Ring
Version3_cubo-octahedron
The basic cubo-octahedral cell that forms the nucleus of the material.
Version 3_5
This is a basic tower model which illustrates the versitility of the material. Any shape can be made.
v.3.0 Basic Array
v.3.0 Basic Array
Icosahedron with Multi-Axial Springs
Icosahedron with Multi-Axial Springs
v.3.0 Close-up View of Array
v.3.0 Close-up View of Array
Cubo-Octahedron Detail
Cubo-Octahedron Detail
Radial Weave Array
Radial Weave Array
Radial Cell with Connectors
Radial Cell with Connectors
Cubo-Octahedral Radial Weave
Cubo-Octahedral Radial Weave
Rigid Sheet Model
Rigid Sheet Model
Flexible Wheel Assembly
Flexible Wheel Assembly
3-D Elastic Concept
3-D Elastic Concept
Icosahedral Beam
Icosahedral Beam
Arched Construction
Arched Construction
Retaining walls and urban structures
Retaining walls plays a major role in construction work for urban areas. When a construction or architecture company starts to…
Resort
Simple, repeatable, factory manufactured modular units that can be stacked. Simple, elegant solutions. Ready made, delivered to the site.
table concept
$180 table anyone?
Soldier and military vehicle
Micro solutions for flexible armor solutions. Reactive armor can anisotropically woven into a multiple protective layers. Lighter weight, flexible, reactive-…
Office tower
Imagine.. a seismically stable structure because the tension members dampen the vibration of energy waves.
Alternative/Disaster-Resistant Construction
Imagine… a new paradigm in construction that anticipates the evolving global need for buildings that can withstand today’s more frequent,…
Cubo-Octahedral Lattice Array
Cubo-Octahedral Lattice Array
Lattice Array Configuration
Lattice Array Configuration
Basic Array Diagram
Basic Array Diagram
Stainless Steel Model
Stainless Steel Model
Truncated Icosahedral Array
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Diagram of Hybrid I-Beam
Diagram of Hybrid I-Beam
Open Icosahedral Assembly
Open Icosahedral Assembly
Non-Conformal Material
Non-Conformal Material
Strong Sphere
If you were asked to create the universe out ofballs and strings, would you know where to start?…and where you…
FLEXTEGRITY WINS INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION
FLEXTEGRITY WINS INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION in 2007 I.D. MAGAZINE ANNUAL DESIGN REVIEW Portland, OR – August 15, 2007 – Flextegrity, Inc.,…
