“…Composite piezoresistive materials include polymermatrix composites containing continuous carbon fibers (Schulte and Baron, 1989;Prabhakaran, 1990;Schulte, 1993;Kaddour et al, 1994;Muto et al, 1995;Sugita et al, 1995;Ceysson, et al, 1996;Wang and Chung, 1996b, 1997a,b, 1998Irving and Thiagarajan, 1998;Abry et al, 1999), carbon black (Kost et al, 1984;Pramanik et al, 1990;Radhakrishnan et al, 1994), metal particles (Radhakrishnan et al, 1994), short carbon fibers (Pramanik et al, 1990;Taya et al, 1998), cement-matrix composites containing short carbon fibers Chung, 1993, 1996a,b;Fu and Chung, 1996a;Fu et al, 1997Fu et al, , 1998, and ceramicmatrix composites containing silicon carbide whiskers (Ishida et al, 1994). The sensing of reversible strain had been observed in polymer-matrix and cement-matrix composites (Kost et al, 1984;Chung, 1993, 1996a,b;Radhakrishnan et al, 1994;Fu and Chung, 1996a;Wang and Chung, 1996b, 19971998Fu et al, 1997Fu et al, , 1998Irving and Thiagarajan, 1998;Taya et al, 1998).…”