“…P IEZOELECTRIC materials (Cady, 1964) are being considered for use as both sensors and actuators for position and vibration control of structures. Examples include lead-zirconate-titanate (PZT) piezoceramic as well as lead-magnesium-niobate (PMN) electrostrictive (Anderson et al, 1990;Giurgiutiu et al, 1996;Hom and Shankar, 1997), magnetostrictive (Dapino et al, 1997;Giurgiutiu and Rogers, 1997;Fujita et al, 1998), piezoelectric stacks (Mitrovic et al, 1999), Rainbow piezoelectric (Dausch and Hooker, 1997;Li et al, 1997;Kiely et al, 1998), C-Block piezoelectric (Brei and Moskalik, 1997;Moskalik and Brei, 1998), torsional piezoelectric (Kim and Chi, 1997), CRESCENT piezoelectric (Chandran et al, 1997), THUNDER piezoelectric (Mossi and Bishop, 1999;Shakeri et al, 1999;Taleghani and Campbell, 1999), and active fiber composite (AFC) as well as magnetic particles active fiber composite (mpAFC) (Bent and Hagood, 1997;Janos and Hagood, 1999;Strock et al, 1999). Materials that exhibit piezoelectric behavior generate a charge in response to a mechanical deformation or alternatively undergo a mechanical deformation in response to an applied electric field.…”