“…We can distinguish two families of fibres, which behave as beams, connected to each other by means of cylindrical connections named pivots. Various papers, see for example [17,22,23], show, from a theoretically point of view, through numerical simulation and also by experiments, that this kind of metamaterial behaves elastically under very large deformations; see for example [24] for the case of load applied on single fibres, [25,26] which discuss some non-standard tests such as traction and bending and [27] for a review on pantographic fabrics; see also [28,29] for a general theoretical introduction on discrete system, [30] for non-local structural elements and [31] for fracture phenomena. This peculiar elastic behaviour, which has many potential practical applications, served as a motivation to design the building block unit of this lattice as that illustrated in figure 2 making use of the king post truss scheme; see [32,33].…”