These are some of the grains we print and use in our granular experiments in the JFI at UChicago.
Here is a list of shapes and some of their properties:
Shape | Volume (mm^3) | Surface Area(mm^2) | N Faces | Geometric Family |
---|---|---|---|---|
Sphere | 22.73 | 38.85 | infty | Ball |
Tetrahedron | 22.50 | 57.43 | 4 | Platonic Solid |
Cube | 22.50 | 47.82 | 6 | Platonic Solid |
Octahedron | 22.50 | 45.58 | 8 | Platonic Solid |
Dodecahedron | 22.50 | 42.33 | 12 | Platonic Solid |
Icosahedron | 22.50 | 41.03 | 20 | Platonic Solid |
Truncated Tetrahedron | 22.50 | 49.71 | 8 | Archimedean Solid |
Triangular Bipyramid | 22.50 | 54.27 | 8 | Johnson Solid |
Tetrahedral Frame | 11.91 | 65.45 | X | Frame |
Dolos | 188.58 | 249.53 | X | Engineering Material |
0.9mm Jack | 35.59 | 59.93 | X | Jack |
1.3mm Jack | 44.73 | 75.21 | X | Jack |
2.6mm Jack | 75.98 | 129.25 | X | Jack |
3.6mm Jack | 100.03 | 171.35 | X | Jack |