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Cellular solids are instrumental in creating lightweight, strong, and damage-tolerant engineering materials. By extending feature size down to the nanoscale, we simultaneously exploit the architecture and material size effects to substantially enhance structural integrity of architected meta-materials. We discovered that hollow-tube alumina nanolattices with 3D kagome geometry that contained pre-fabricated flaws always failed at the same load as the pristine specimens when the ratio of notch length  (a)  to sample width  (w)  is no greater than 1/3, with no correlation between failure occurring at or away from the notch. Samples with  (a/w)  > 0.3, and notch length-to-unit cell size ratios of  (a/l)  > 5.2, failed at a lower peak loads because of the higher sample compliance when fewer unit cells span the intact region. Finite element simulations show that the failure is governed by purely tensile loading for  (a/w)  < 0.3 for the same  (a/l) ; bending begins to play a significant role in failure as  (a/w)  increases. This experimental and computational work demonstrates that the discrete-continuum duality of architected structural meta-materials may give rise to their damage tolerance and insensitivity of failure to the presence of flaws even when made entirely of intrinsically brittle materials.

Insensitivity to Flaws Leads to Damage Tolerance in Brittle Architected Meta-Materials