You don&#x27;t need to be so literal. When you look at honeycomb, for example, the manufacturers provide strength data in much the same way you&#x27;d see it for a solid metal. When you model it with finite element software, you treat it as an monolithic material - you don&#x27;t model every fold of metal. In that sense, honeycomb (and this stuff) is a material in that it&#x27;s used the same way. The properties of the &quot;material&quot; already account for its micro-structure.