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We study optimal layout of piece-wise periodic structures of linearly elastic materials. The effective tensors of these structures are constant within pre-specified regions, the optimality is understood as the minimum of complementary energy. The suggested formulation leads to a construction that is stable under variation of the loading and which does not degenerates into checkerboard type structures...