developable surface

Related to developable surface: ruled surface

developable surface

[di¦vel·əp·ə·bəl ′sər·fəs]

(mathematics)

A surface that can be obtained from a plane sheet by deformation, without stretching or shrinking.

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2] developable surfaces of biharmonic b-slant helices in the special three-dimensional [phi]--Ricci symmetric para-Sasakian manifold P.

New characterization of b-[m.sub.2] developable surfaces/ Novas caracterizacoes das superficies desenvolvimentaveis de b-[m.sub.2]

Any constant angle spacelike surface is isometric to a plane, a cone, a cylinder or a tangent developable surface.

Thus they must be tangent developable surfaces, cylinders and cones.

Constant angle surfaces in Minkowski space

Let S be an orientable timelike non - developable surface.

The parallel surface S to a timelike (spacelike) non - developable surface surface S at distance [delta] = 1/2H, H a positive constant, is synclastic (respectively, anticlastic).

Some results on parallel surfaces in 3-dimensional Minkowski space [R.sup.3.sub.1]

Inextensible flows of curves and developable surfaces.

One parameter family of S-tangent surfaces/Uma familia de parametros de superficies tangenciais em S