Synthesis of Equations For Ruled Surfaces With Two Curvilinear And One Rectangular Directrixes

Abstract

Ruled surfaces have long been known and are widely used in construction, architecture, design and engineering. And if from the technical point of view the developable surfaces are more attractive, then architecture and design successfully experiment with non-developable ones. In this paper are considered non-developable ruled surfaces with three generators, two of which are curvilinear ones. According to classification, such surfaces are called twice oblique cylindroids. In this paper has been proposed an approach for obtaining of twice oblique cylindroids by immersing a curve in a line congruence of hyperbolic type. Real directrixes of such congruence are a straight line and a curve. It has been proposed to use helical lines (cylindrical and conical ones) as a curvilinear directrix, and a helical line’s axis as the straight one. Then the congruence’s rectilinear ray will simultaneously intersect the helical line and its axis. Congruence parameters are the line’s pitch and the guide cylinder or cone’s radius. The choice of the curvilinear directrix is justified by the fact that the helical lines have found a wide application in engineering and architecture. Accordingly, the helical lines based surfaces can have a great potential. In this paper have been presented parametric equations of the considered congruences. The congruence equations have been considered from the point of view related to introducing a new curvilinear coordinate system. The obtained system’s coordinate surfaces and coordinate lines have been also studied in the paper. To extract the surface, it is necessary to immerse the curve in the congruence. To synthesize the equations has been used a constructive-parametric method based on the substitution of the immersed line’s parametric equations in the congruence equations according to a special algorithm. In the paper have been presented 5 examples for the synthesis of ruled surfaces equations such as the twice oblique cylindroid and their visualization. The method is universal and algorithmic, and therefore easily adaptable for the automated construction of surfaces with variable parameters of both the congruence and the immersed line.