hexachiral

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English

Etymology

From hexa- +‎ chiral.

Adjective

hexachiral (not comparable)

  1. (mathematics) hexagonal and chiral
    • 2015, Andrea Bacigalupo, Marco Lepidi, Giorgio Gnecco, Luigi Gambarotta, “Optimal design of auxetic hexachiral metamaterials with local resonators”, in arXiv:
      A parametric beam lattice model is formulated to analyse the propagation properties of elastic in-plane waves in an auxetic material based on a hexachiral topology of the periodic cell, equipped with inertial local resonators.