Elastomers short fiber reinforced rubber

O Connor, J.E. (1977) Short-fiber-reinforced elastomer composites. Rubber Chem. Technol., 50, 945-958. 

Extensive reviews on short fibers-reinforced elastomers have been published by Goettler and Shen, ° and more recently by Rajeev. Table 7.11 is a list of selected published works on natural fiber-filled rubber composites, sorted by rubber type. Only vulcanizable rubbers were considered in preparing the table thermoplastic rubber and rubber-plastics blends were omitted. As can be seen most grades of conventional elastomers have been considered with quite a large variety of natural fibers. Natural Rubber, SBR, and EPDM compounds have received much attention, as expected with respect to their industrial importance. A bonding system is us in most cases, with resin types (i.e. resorcinol-formaldehyde, resorcinol-hexamethylenetetramine, sil-ica-resorcinol-hexamethylenetetramine) the most frequent ones. 

Filling an elastomer with short fibers essentially involves combining the viscoelastic behavior of a rubber matrix with the strength and stiffness of the fiber, in order to obtain useful engineering materials. Reinforcing elastomers... 

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