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Navigating the Lattice

May 25, 2020 / steffan

Curated by Kirby! You have no doubt played a 2D game on a grid of squares, chess or checkers for example. Not every piece moves the same way perhaps, however in principle each square has four neighbors over the edge, and four more along the diagonals. Bishops know those diagonals… …whereas Knights move over one […]

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Generating the Flextegrity Lattice

May 25, 2020 / steffan

Our purpose here is to elaborate a classic Python framework for storing and writing geometric information in a variety of formats, suitable for ray tracing and use within CAD programs. The target architecture we want to model is Flextegrity, a tension-compression lattice based on holding compression islands in relative positions, in an all-way space. Its inventor […]

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Advanced Polyhedral Materials

December 22, 2019 / flo

Flextegrity, Inc. makes possible advanced polyhedral materials that anticipate and meet the comprehensive demands of civil engineering applications, disaster-resistant housing, environmental solutions, and revolutionary product designs. The foundation of Flextegrity’s intellectual property is a unique and innovative icosahedron and truncated icosahedrons tensile architecture for assembled structural materials called “C6XTY.” In later patents the work has […]

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Mathematical Model of Icosahedral Materials

December 21, 2019 / flo

by Mark A. Martin, Ph.D. August 2006, © Flextegrity, Inc. 2006, 2007 Introduction An icosahedral material is a regular three­dimensional array of icosahedra held together by a repeating pattern of flexible interconnecting bands. Each interconnecting band attaches to exactly two icosahedra and each icosahedron has up to 12 bands attached to it, depending on its position […]

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Stress Analysis Icosahedron Beam

December 15, 2019 / flo

Finite Element Stress Analysis of Icosahedron Beam by Ross Engineering, Prepared for: Mr. Sam Lanahan, Flextegrity Abstract This is a stress analysis report for the Icosahedron Beam. The analysis was performed to compare a beam constructed of the Icosahedrons fabricated of Aluminum to a standard Wood beam. The predicted deflections are similar, while the component […]

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Omni-extensible Anisotropic Topologies

December 15, 2019 / flo

In this article we present Flextegrity’s patent – arrays that vary anisotropically, omni-topologically, creating myriad hybrid materials. Arrays and lattices Micro-Structured Materials can be thought of as new ‘raw’ material resources, and combined with macro- molecular shapes to create hybrid materials. Arrays continue that hierarchical sequence resulting from combinations of materials, micro– and macromolecular shapes, […]

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Icosahedron deformation

Compression Study of Open Faced Icosahedron

December 12, 2019 / flo

ICOSAHEDRON COMPRESSION STUDY Introduction and Background: The project started with an initial compression model of a symmetric icosahedron array modeled after a sheet steel structure. Analysis results indicated that the compressive load carrying capacity of the structure is dominated by the connecting ligaments. That is, under compressive load, the connectors want to buckle and irreversibly […]

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some viruses have Icosahedral Structures

Nanoscale Biological Icosahedral Structures

December 1, 2019 / flo

In nature, identical, spontaneously assembling protein subunits tend to form symmetrical, minimum-energy shapes. Certain shapes are well-suited for microbiological tasks and persist within organisms. One shape that occurs in several contexts is the icosahedron. A common feature among the icosahedral structures found in microbiology is that they control permeability. Some of these structures, in viruses, for example, may be nearly impermeable, protecting their contents from damaging outside influences and allowing small entities with limited genetic resources to construct viable outer casings.

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Market Opportunities

November 26, 2019 / steffan

Positioning:  Flextegrity, Inc. is the inventor/developer/manufacturer of specialty structural materials that anticipate and meet the comprehensive demands of disaster-resistant housing, personal protection, environmental solutions, and other emerging markets. Leverage:  The foundation of Flextegrity’s intellectual property is a unique and innovative geometry for assembled structural materials.  We will succeed in the market by providing anticipatory and […]

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Tensegrity to Flextegrity an evolutionary path

November 6, 2019 / steffan

From Tensegrity to Flextegrity (aka, “How in the heck did you ever think this up??”)  Inventors with strikingly novel concepts are often asked, “How in the world did you ever come up with that idea?”. My experience as author and creator of Flextegrity’s new technology has been no exception. However, my surprise is not that […]

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Creative Visions

August 28, 2019 / steffan

Materials and design, whether in architecture or consumer products, are inextricably interwoven and co-influential.  As Patrick Kruithof so aptly states in Future Materials, “It is up to manufacturers to develop these new materials. It is up to designers to transform them into things that have meaning, like ink flowing on the paper of a love […]

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C6XTY – building and creating with nature

August 21, 2019 / Sam Lanahan

What is it? Flextegrity has developed and patented a 3-dimensional tensile lattice that is easily constructed from two component parts. The soccer ball shape is excellent for distributing compressive forces across its surface. Buckminster Fuller described these as ‘islands of compression.’ The balls then are surrounded in a ‘sea of tension.’ Tension and compression can […]

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C6XTY Synthetic Lattice

How C6XTY Synthetic Lattice Can Shape Our Smart Cities

August 13, 2019 / Sam Lanahan

Lattices are both a framework made of metal or metal strips and a regular geometrical arrangement of atoms or molecules in a crystalline solid. C6XTY isn’t actually a thing by itself, but a name to a structural form that can be made from almost any substance and on any size, bigger or smaller. It utilizes […]

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Innovations in Structural Optimization

February 18, 2018 / steffan

Flextegrity, Inc. is creating and developing advanced polyhedral materials that anticipate and meet the comprehensive demands of civil engineering applications, disaster-resistant housing, environmental solutions, and revolutionary product designs. The foundation of Flextegrity’s intellectual property is a unique and innovative icosahedron and truncated icosahedrons tensile architecture for assembled structural materials. This radically simple yet elegant technology […]

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How to Assemble the C6XTY

January 10, 2018 / steffan

—– TEXT FROM YOUTUBE TRANSCRIPT I’m going to introduce 00:04 you to how to construct the C6XTY ball 00:08 from the six component parts and you’ve 00:11 seen them by now they’ve arrived in the 00:13 mail or a box and we’re gonna at the end 00:16 of this introduction we’re actually 00:18 going to […]

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Stir Your Creativity!

November 1, 2017 / magicss

Activate your creativity with C6XTY. Imagine using C6XTY fabric to restore a reef…

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C6XTY Interview with Sam Lanahan

October 11, 2017 / magicss
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C6XTY Render

Materials Properties slides

May 17, 2017 / magicss
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Innovations – chapter 5

May 17, 2017 / magicss

Flextegrity: Innovations in Structural Optimization View Book Online Chapter 2 Chapter 5 Download PDF Chapter 2 Chapter 5 Purchase Book Amazon [pdf-embedder url=”/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Chapter5.pdf”]

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Innovations – chapter 2

May 17, 2017 / magicss

Flextegrity: Innovations in Structural Optimization View Book Online Chapter 2 Chapter 5 Download PDF Chapter 2 Chapter 5 Purchase Book Amazon [pdf-embedder url=”/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Chapter2.pdf”]

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Strength to Weight Advantage

May 17, 2017 / magicss

Strength-to-weight ratio is inherently high even before material choice. Like the strongest “traditional” materials (wood, steel, and reinforced concrete), the geometry has significant strength both in tension and compression, affording greater freedom and efficiency in design and use. Failure-resistance is a natural by-product of the constituent element shape factors and discontinuous geometry, such that tears […]

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Sawtooth Equatorial Molding

May 13, 2017 / xtyadmin

Sawtooth Equatorial Molding

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Flexible Material in Torsion

May 12, 2017 / xtyadmin

Flexible Material in Torsion

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Arched Florets

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin
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Jumbled Florets

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin

A simple system that incorporates both tension and compression into a single element.

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Floret tower

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin
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Version 4 slab

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin
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Version 4 tower

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin
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v.4.0 Basic Array

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin
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Assembled Block: Ring & Mortar Lattice

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin

Assembled Block: Ring & Mortar Lattice

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v.4.0 Basic Array

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin
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Partial Assembly: Ring & Mortar Lattice

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin

Partial Assembly: Ring & Mortar Lattice

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Side View: Ring & Mortar Layers

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin

Side View: Ring & Mortar Layers

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Stacked Ring & Mortar Layers

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin

Stacked Ring & Mortar Layers

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Stacking of Icosahedral Rings

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin

Stacking of Icosahedral Rings It’s not just a good idea, it’s natures way. Consider stacking various C6XTY lattices in order to stabilize piping systems.

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Top View: Icosa Hex Ring & Mortar

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin

Top View: Icosa Hex Ring & Mortar

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Top View: Icosa Hex Ring & Mortar

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin

Top View: Icosa Hex Ring & Mortar

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Icosahedral Hex Ring & Mortar

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin

Icosahedral Hex Ring & Mortar

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v.4.0 Basic Hex Ring

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin

v.4.0 Basic Hex Ring

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Version3_cubo-octahedron

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin

The basic cubo-octahedral cell that forms the nucleus of the material.

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Version 3_5

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin

This is a basic tower model which illustrates the versitility of the material. Any shape can be made.

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sidewalk

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin
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v.3.0 Basic Array

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin

v.3.0 Basic Array

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Icosahedron with Multi-Axial Springs

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin

Icosahedron with Multi-Axial Springs

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v.3.0 FlexBlox Prototype Slab

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin

FlexBlox Prototype Slab

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v.3.0 Close-up View of Array

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin

v.3.0 Close-up View of Array

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Cubo-Octahedron Detail

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin

Cubo-Octahedron Detail

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Radial Weave Array

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin

Radial Weave Array

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Radial Cell with Connectors

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin

Radial Cell with Connectors

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Cubo-Octahedral Radial Weave

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin

Cubo-Octahedral Radial Weave

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Rigid Sheet Model

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin

Rigid Sheet Model

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Flexible Wheel Assembly

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin

Flexible Wheel Assembly

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Z-Beam Model

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin

Z-Beam Model

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3-D Elastic Concept

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin

3-D Elastic Concept

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Column/ Beam/ Plane/ Cube

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin

Column/Beam/Plane/Cube

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Icosahedral Beam

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin

Icosahedral Beam

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Arched Construction

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin

Arched Construction

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Retaining walls and urban structures

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin

Retaining walls plays a major role in construction work for urban areas. When a construction or architecture company starts to work on a civic project, some considerations need to be made. From constructing a pole to building an urban structure, the governments all around the globe have laid special instructions to make the structures safe […]

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Resort

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin

Simple, repeatable, factory manufactured modular units that can be stacked. Simple, elegant solutions. Ready made, delivered to the site.

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table concept

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin

$180 table anyone?

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Soldier and military vehicle

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin

Micro solutions for flexible armor solutions. Reactive armor can anisotropically woven into a multiple protective layers. Lighter weight, flexible, reactive- a much better body protection plan!

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Office tower

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin

Imagine.. a seismically stable structure because the tension members dampen the vibration of energy waves.

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Disaster Proof Illustration

Alternative/Disaster-Resistant Construction

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin

Imagine… a new paradigm in construction that anticipates the evolving global need for buildings that can withstand today’s more frequent, severe and disastrous weather and seismic events that often overwhelm conventionally built structures. Present day housing construction is driven by a short-term cost mentality and traditional, patched-together uses of materials that are only as strong […]

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Heat Sink / Ventilation

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin
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bias array

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin
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Cubo-Octahedral Lattice Array

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin

Cubo-Octahedral Lattice Array

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Lattice Array Configuration

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin

Lattice Array Configuration

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Basic Array Diagram

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin

Basic Array Diagram

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Stainless Steel Model

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin

Stainless Steel Model

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Truncated Icosahedral Array

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin

Truncated Icosahedral Array

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Diagram of Hybrid I-Beam

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin

Diagram of Hybrid I-Beam

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Open Icosahedral Assembly

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin

Open Icosahedral Assembly

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Non-Conformal Material

March 17, 2017 / xtyadmin

Non-Conformal Material

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Grab some popcorn and treat yourself to movies of our destructive lab testing!

FlexBlox beam under maximum compression load exceeding 2,500 lbf
Close-up of FlexBlox slab under maximum compression load exceeding 10,000 lbf
FlexBlox slab under maximum tension load exceeding 750 lbf

Grab some popcorn and treat yourself to movies of our destructive lab testing!

FlexBlox beam under maximum compression load exceeding 2,500 lbf
Close-up of FlexBlox slab under maximum compression load exceeding 10,000 lbf
FlexBlox slab under maximum tension load exceeding 750 lbf
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  • Flextegrity: Innovations in Structural Optimization
  • Applications
  • Soil Stabilized Pipe Support Solutions
  • Strong Sphere
  • Structurally Optimized Geometry Derived from Nature
  • Roadways/Bridges/ Stormwater Management
  • Intelligent Streets & Sidewalks
  • Artificial Reef
  • Catalytic Converter
  • Building-scale Mega-Architectures
  • Architectural & Lighting Features
  • Artificial Muscle / Bio-Materials
  • Flextegrity: A Problem-Solving Technology
  • Advanced Polyhedral Materials
  • Mathematical Model of Icosahedral Materials
  • Technology Differentiation / Material Uniqueness
  • Stress Analysis Icosahedron Beam
  • Omni-extensible Anisotropic Topologies
  • Compression Study of Open Faced Icosahedron
  • Nanoscale Biological Icosahedral Structures
  • Soil Stabilized Pipe Support Solutions
  • Market Opportunities
  • Local Deformation with Global Stiffness