Abstract
Vulcanizates of natural rubber and natural rubber/polybutadiene rubber blends have been tested for fatigue resistance separately under flexing and tension, and the fracture surfaces studied using a scanning electron microscope. The fatigue resistance ranking of the vulcanizates is almost the same from both types of tests. However, the mode of fracture depends on the type of test. In flexing failure, the dimple structure observed in unfilled natural rubber was absent in the blends. The presence of carbon black filler causes brittle fracture in both natural rubber and the blends. In tension fatigue, the fracture surface of the unfilled vulcanizates shows two zones, a rough zone and a tear zone. Brittleness observed in the black-filled natural rubber vulcanizate was less prominent in the blends.
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