Johnson solid with 20 faces
In geometry, the elongated triangular orthobicupola is a polyhedron constructed by attaching two regular triangular cupola into the base of a regular hexagonal prism. It is an example of Johnson solid.
Construction
The elongated triangular orthobicupola can be constructed from a hexagonal prism by attaching two regular triangular cupolae onto its base, covering its hexagonal faces.[1] This construction process known as elongation, giving the resulting polyhedron has 8 equilateral triangles and 12 squares.[2] A convex polyhedron in which all faces are regular is Johnson solid, and the elongated triangular orthobicupola is one among them, enumerated as 35th Johnson solid .[3]
Properties
An elongated triangular orthobicupola with a given edge length has a surface area, by adding the area of all regular faces:[2]
Its volume can be calculated by cutting it off into two triangular cupolae and a hexagonal prism with regular faces, and then adding their volumes up:[2]
It has the same three-dimensional symmetry groups as the triangular orthobicupola, the dihedral group of order 12. Its dihedral angle can be calculated by adding the angle of the triangular cupola and hexagonal prism. The dihedral angle of a hexagonal prism between two adjacent squares is the internal angle of a regular hexagon , and that between its base and square face is . The dihedral angle of a regular triangular cupola between each triangle and the hexagon is approximately , that between each square and the hexagon is , and that between square and triangle is . The dihedral angle of an elongated triangular orthobicupola between the triangle-to-square and square-to-square, on the edge where the triangular cupola and the prism is attached, is respectively:[4]
The elongated triangular orthobicupola forms space-filling honeycombs with tetrahedra and square pyramids.[5]
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