Vibration Insulation Materials

Performance of most of the modern residential and office buildings is impossible without life-supporting engineering equipment. Conditioning and ventilation systems, backup power sources, elevators and other devices are the source of low-frequency mechanical vibrations transmitted by load-bearing structures of a building. Also, vibrations can be transmitted from the rail road, metro and other external vibration sources through the soil. Vibrations may have adverse effect on the building structures, as well as on the mental and physical condition of a person.

To reduce vibrations, a complex of measures collectively named vibration insulation is performed. One of the most effective vibration insulation methods is introduction of a resilient (anti-vibration) layer between the vibration source and the surface being protected (structure). Vibration absorbing and vibration insulation materials can fulfill the function of such layer.