Augmented truncated tetrahedron explained

Type:Johnson
Faces:8 triangles
3 squares
3 hexagons
Edges:27
Vertices:15
Net:Johnson solid 65 net.png

In geometry, the augmented truncated tetrahedron is a polyhedron constructed by attaching a triangular cupola onto an truncated tetrahedron. It is an example of a Johnson solid.

Construction

The augmented truncated tetrahedron is constructed from a truncated tetrahedron by attaching a triangular cupola. This cupola covers one of the truncated tetrahedron's four hexagonal faces, so that the resulting polyhedron's faces are eight equilateral triangles, three squares, and three regular hexagons. Since it has the property of convexity and has regular polygonal faces, the augmented truncated tetrahedron is a Johnson solid, denoted as the sixty-fifth Johnson solid

J65

.

Properties

The surface area of an augmented truncated tetrahedron is: \fraca^2 \approx 14.258a^2, the sum of the areas of its faces. Its volume can be calculated by slicing it off into both truncated tetrahedron and triangular cupola, and adding their volume: \fraca^3 \approx 3.889a^3.

C3

. Its dihedral angles can be obtained by adding the angle of a triangular cupola and an augmented truncated tetrahedron in the following: