To increase the reinforceing effect of glass short fiber towards butadiene rubber, the reaction of 1-chlorobutadiene-butadiene rubber (
CB-BR) onto the glass short fiber was carried out using N-(2-aminoethyl) piperadine (
AEP) and/or diepoxy compound (
DEP) as novel non-sulfur curatives. Styrene-butadiene rubber carrying hydroxyl groups (HCB-SBR) was prepared by hydrolyzing 1-chlorobutadiene-styrene-butadiene rubber, and was used as a material to study the effect of interface reaction of glass short fiber by diisocyanate (I) cure system. The vulcanizates compounded with 0-22% volume fraction (
Vf) of the filler treated with or without aminosilane coupling agent (
AS) were prepared and their physical properties were investigated. The
AEP-DEP vulcanizate of
CB-BR compounded with AS-treated glass short fiber showed the highest relative network-chain density (ν
F/ν
0=10.9,
Vf=0.17) and tensile strength at break (
TB; 3.2 MPa,
Vf=0.17). Among
HCB-SBR vulcanizates, the higher ν
F/ν
0 and
TB were obtainable by the I cure system. It is estimated that the chemical bonding between
CB-BR or
HCB-SBR and glass short fiber is present, which would be the reason of the higher properties of the above vulcanizate. The reaction mechanisms involving
CB-BR or
HCB-SBR, the curatives, and the glass short fiber were discussed on the basis of the corelation between network-chain density or tensile modulus of the vulcanizate and volume fraction of the filler.
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