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Then, we look towards the insertion of this sensor yarn into different woven structures followed by the monitoring of the mechanical behaviour of composite materials made with these fibrous reinforcements. The combined effect of the structural geometry and the number of PEDOT:PSS coating layers on the properties of the sensor yarns was investigated. It was found that the number of PEDOT:PSS coating layers could strongly influence the electromechanical behaviours of the sensor yarns. Different methods of characterization were employed on strain-sensor yarns with two and four coating layers of PEDOT:PSS. The piezo-resistive strain-sensor properties of these selected coating layers were evaluated. Cyclic stretching-releasing tests were also performed to investigate the dynamic strain-sensing behavior. The obtained results indicated that gauge factor values can be extracted in three strain regions for two and four coating layers, respectively. Moreover, these strain-sensor yarns showed accurate and stable sensor responses under cyclic conditions. Furthers works are in progress to investigate the mechanism behind these first results of these sisal fibre-based sensors.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s21124083","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,6,14]],"date-time":"2021-06-14T22:25:46Z","timestamp":1623709546000},"page":"4083","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["Piezo-Resistive Properties of Bio-Based Sensor Yarn Made with Sisal Fibre"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"21","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3008-1684","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ahmed","family":"Abed","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"GEMTEX\u2013Laboratoire de G\u00e9nie et Mat\u00e9riaux Textiles, University of Lille, ENSAIT, F-59000 Lille, France"},{"name":"Centrale Lille Institut, F-59000 Lille, France"},{"name":"Laboratory REMTEX, ESITH, Route d\u2019El Jadida, km 8, BP 7731 Oulfa, Casablanca, Morocco"},{"name":"Laboratory Physics of Condensed Matter (LPMC), Faculty of Science El Jadida, Chouaib Doukkali University, El 24000 Jadida, Morocco"}]},{"given":"Zineb","family":"Samouh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"GEMTEX\u2013Laboratoire de G\u00e9nie et Mat\u00e9riaux Textiles, University of Lille, ENSAIT, F-59000 Lille, France"},{"name":"Centrale Lille Institut, F-59000 Lille, France"},{"name":"Laboratory REMTEX, ESITH, Route d\u2019El Jadida, km 8, BP 7731 Oulfa, Casablanca, Morocco"},{"name":"Laboratory Physics of Condensed Matter (LPMC), Faculty of Science El Jadida, Chouaib Doukkali University, El 24000 Jadida, Morocco"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4363-1721","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"C\u00e9dric","family":"Cochrane","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"GEMTEX\u2013Laboratoire de G\u00e9nie et Mat\u00e9riaux Textiles, University of Lille, ENSAIT, F-59000 Lille, France"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0986-3155","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Francois","family":"Boussu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"GEMTEX\u2013Laboratoire de G\u00e9nie et Mat\u00e9riaux Textiles, University of Lille, ENSAIT, F-59000 Lille, France"}]},{"given":"Omar","family":"Cherkaoui","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Laboratory REMTEX, ESITH, Route d\u2019El Jadida, km 8, BP 7731 Oulfa, Casablanca, Morocco"}]},{"given":"Reddad","family":"El Moznine","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Laboratory Physics of Condensed Matter (LPMC), Faculty of Science El Jadida, Chouaib Doukkali University, El 24000 Jadida, Morocco"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4590-6645","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Julien","family":"Vieillard","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"COBRA (UMR 6014), UNIROUEN, INSA Rouen, Normandie Universit\u00e9, CNRS, 55 rue Saint Germain, F-27000 Evreux, France"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,6,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"800","DOI":"10.1016\/j.compstruct.2017.10.068","article-title":"Structural Design and Test of Automobile Bonnet with Natural Flax Composite through Impact Damage Analysis","volume":"184","author":"Park","year":"2018","journal-title":"Compos. 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