Honeycomb Material

The hexagonal column honeycomb built by bees is the structure in the nature that has lest material consumption, largest available space, highest intensity, light mass and extremely excellent comprehensive properties. With the increasing development in bionics, the excellent structure of honeycomb kind was firstly applied in aviation and space fields by people in the 1940s, taking: brown paper honeycomb is used as padding for aircraft carrier decks and airplane wings and the padding between the internal and external walls of rocket isolation cabin is aluminum honeycomb too. According to the different material quality, honeycomb materials can be categorized as aluminum honeycomb, plastic honeycomb and glass steel honeycomb(carbon fiber honeycomb) and the processing and making craft varies from each other due to the different material quality. The starting of honeycomb industry in our country is quite late, but it is close to that of developed countries at present, and some new connection craft is even superior to that of developed countries; the gap in terms of industry size is very big. The honeycomb tycoons such as Global, Honicel and Besson etc. in the developed countries mainly manufacture products in terms of space, aviation, plane, vessel, train and automobile etc. which are featured as good quality, high price, such as the US stealth aircraft, the production craft of the carbon filament honeycomb used is so-so, while the price is very high. Among the honeycomb materials of all quality, the one that has most advanced production craft, highest efficiency, highest mechanization level and widest application is honeycomb material.

In terms of purpose, honeycomb material can be classified as the one for package purpose and the one for engineering purpose. Honeycomb material is widely used in many industries and fieids including package case , tray , door industry , decoration plate material , building partition, GMP clean engineering compocite board , the cabin partition of plane , car and ship , military etc ;and the main applicable aspects include: substitute wood with papei , substitute plastics with paper , substitute brick with paper , substitute steel with paper, so the application range is very wide.

Since the 1960, the well-known companies in the honeycomb industry such sd Globe, Honicel and Besson etc . in the developed countries in British and US etc .have applied honeycomb into wall materials, esp . in the internal partition walls of high –rise and the parts that have special comprehensive property requirements on light mass , heat conservation and sound insulation etc In the 1990s , US SOM LLP applied such light honeycomb structure into the internal walls of shanghai Jin Mao Building, the first high-rise in Asia , initiating the application of honeycomb composite material in the architecture industry of our country