ACOUSTIC MATERIALS

BUILDING CONSTRUCTION
 ACOUSTICS
• Acoustics is the interdisciplinary science that deals with the study of all mechanical waves in gases, liquids,
and solids including vibration,sound, ultrasound and infrasound. A scientist who works in the field of
acoustics is an acoustician while someone working in the field of acoustics technology may be called
an acoustical engineer. The application of acoustics is present in almost all aspects of modern society with
the most obvious being the audio and noise control industries.

•The word "acoustic" is derived from the Greek word ἀκουστικός (akoustikos),
meaning "of or for hearing, ready to hear" and that from ἀκουστός (akoustos), "heard,
audible",which in turn derives from the verb ἀκούω (akouo), "I hear".

The study of acoustics revolves around the generation, propagation and

reception of mechanical waves and vibrations.
 TYPES OF MATERIALS

• SOUND ABSORBERS
• SOUND DIFFUSERS
• NOISE BARRIERS
• SOUND REFLECTORS
 SOUND ABSORBERS
• These sound absorbing acoustical panels and soundproofing
materials are used to eliminate sound reflections to improve
speech intelligibility, reduce standing waves and prevent comb
filtering.
• Typical materials are open cell polyurethane foam, cellular
melamine, fiberglass, fluffy fabrics and other porous materials.
A wide variety of materials can be applied to walls and ceilings
depending on your application and environment. TYPES –
• These materials vary in thickness and in shape to achieve different •Acoustical foam panels
absorption ratings depending on the specific sound requirements.
• White paintable acoustical wall

•Fabric wrapped panels

•Fibre glass blankets and roll

•Acoustical wall covering

•Ceiling tiles

•Baffles and banners for ceiling

 ACOUSTICAL FOAM PANELS
• These acoustical foam sound absorbers are used in a wide variety of applications ranging
from Recording and Broadcast Studios to Commercial and Industrial Facilities. Available in
Polyurethane or in a Class 1 fire related foam. These products can be applied directly to
walls, hung as baffles or used as freestanding absorbers.
Anechoic wedges are
Design enables you to ideal for controlling
increase thickness quickly low frequency sound
by nesting layers to create a room that is
Standard patterns include perceptually devoid of
wedge, pyramid, max sound.
STACKABLE FOAM
wedge for low frequency ANECHOIC WEDGE
absorption, ceiling baffles,
bermuda triangle traps for Absorbers are lightweight
corners, sounds cylinders open cell foams used when a
free standing absorbers Class 1 fire rated foam is
required. Standard patterns
STANDARD POLYURETHANE FOAM PATTERNS include Wedge, Pyramid,
CUTTING WEDGE Max Wedge, Ceiling Baffles
Installs to create seamless absorptive walls,
and more. These can easily
and enhance imaging by reducing unwanted
mount to walls or ceilings.
reflections. Available in 1'x1' or 2'x4' sheets. FIRE RATED
FOAM
 WHITE PAINTABLE PANELS
• It is a white acoustical wall panel with a soft textured appearance. The two foot by one foot
dimension provides installers flexibility to mount acoustical panels around existing objects. In
addition to reducing echo and reverberation, these acoustical panels are used to create unique
designs and patterns. The glass fiber core is faced with a paintable covering. This allows you
to match or complement existing wall colors by applying a light coat of flat or matte spray
paint. To customize the look even further, many local printing companies now have the
capability to produce an image directly to the face of these panels.
∞ Quick & Easy acoustical solution
∞ Soft drywall texture appearance
∞ Create unique patterns
∞ Panel size allows for flexible mounting options
∞ Paintable & Printable finish

Construction: 1 " Fiberglass 6 PCF

acoustical core + molded fiberboard Sustainability
+ paintable facing. Resin hardened
square edges. Paintable finish covers This product bears the
Green Cross label for Mounting
face and exposed edges.
recycled content. The Installs using standard impaling clip
Class A rating per ASTM E 84
acoustical substrate is method. (adhesive by others) Other
Panel Size: 2' x 1' (24 inches by 12
certified on average to mounting options shown below.
inches) contain at least 35% MOUNT IN CORNERS
Thickness: 1-1/8" recycled glass, with 9%
USING CORNER CLIPS.
Quantity per box: 10 panels post-consumer and 26%
pre-consumer content.
 MOUNT ON TWO INCH STAND
 FABRIC WRAPPED PANELS
• Acoustical sound panels utilize 6-7 PCF glass fiber material for maximum absorption.
Available as wall panels, ceiling tiles, hanging baffles, acoustical clouds and bass traps, with
more than 50 standard colors to choose from, these materials will look as good as they sound.
The standard sizes and configurations best maximize raw materials, however, many of these
products can be customized to meet specific requirements should you need material sized to
fit or other finishes or coverings.
•Ceiling clouds reduce reflected sound in areas such
as theaters, restaurants, arenas, shopping malls,
convention centers, recording and broadcast rooms, or
anywhere absorption is required.
CEILING CLOUDS •All surface faces and edges of the
WALL PANELS glass fiber core are wrapped in
fabric to match or accentuate room
•Used to reduce echo and décor . Ceiling Baffles absorb
reverberation in sound on all sides and edges.
CEILING BAFFLES
applications, small and large.
CEILING TILES
These panels are
manufactured from a rigid •Sculptured sound absorbing
•Ceiling Tiles are an modular units used for walls, as
high density (6-7 PCF) glass excellent choice for
fiber acoustical board and corner traps, bass traps and
many ceiling grid ceiling applications. Available in
covered with an acoustically applications requiring
transparent fabric. half-rounds or quarter-rounds.
high absorption.
BROADBAND ABSORBER
 WALL COVERINGS
• Acoustical wall fabric is a dimensional fabric that offers excellent acoustical properties,
unmatched fade resistance, and a fire/smoke retardant class A rating. Sound channels is
resistant to moisture, mildew, rot, bacteria, and is non-allergenic. Produced with no voc’s
(volatile organic compounds), ods’s (ozone depleting substances), heavy metals or
formaldehyde, it's the perfect acoustic fabric for offices, classrooms, conference centers or
any area where speech intelligibility is a critical factor.
Installation:
•This material is not factory trimmed. It is
necessary for the installer to cut a straight vertical
edge
•Following the ribbed pattern. All edges must be butt
joined. Do not overcut edges. Cut material to
• Desired lengths, allowing for top and bottom
trimming. Wall carpet should be hung
Straight up. Do not alternately reverse strips.
Features: Applications: • Apply a premixed heavy duty adhesive directly
• Lightweight Acoustic Fabric • Conference Rooms
to the wall, allowing it to dry to its maximum
• Easy to install • Theaters tackability Without it being overly dry.
• Class A • Hospitals
• Passes Corner Burn Test • Municipal
• Available in Many Colors • Office Partitions
• Durable / Abuse Resistant • Schools
• Improves Speech Intelligibility •Hallways
 CEILING TILES
• Cloudscape Ceiling Tiles absorb noise and block sound transmission. These ceiling tiles are
designed to fit into existing 2' x 2' suspended drop tile ceiling grid systems. They may also
retrofit in a 2' x 4' ceiling grid by installing cross tees. Cloudscape ceiling tiles may also be
ordered as a full 24" x 24" size, un-backed for adhesive mounting directly to walls or ceilings.
• Ordinary ceilings take on new levels of visual excitement with these sculptured tiles. They are
available in five different patterns plus a non-patterned look to enable you to "mix and match"
for your own designs.

Available Sizes:
24" x 24" (nominal)
Specify grid when ordering:
9/16 or 15/16
 BAFFLES AND BANNERS
• Baffles and Banners are designed to solve acoustical problems economically in any large
cubic volume space such as arenas, gymnasiums, theaters, restaurants, and auditoriums.
Reverberation times that range from 4 to 9 seconds can be reduced to 1/2 to 2 seconds.
Speech intelligibility is greatly improved and sound intensity levels are reduced
simultaneously by 3 to 12 decibels.
BANNERS:
BAFFLES:
•Baffles are an economical way to •Speech intelligibility is greatly
reduce sound pressure levels and lower improved and sound intensity levels
reverberation times in large spaces such can be simultaneously reduced by 3 to
as 12 decibels.
gymnasiums, theaters, restaurants, healt •Banners are suspended from
h and fitness clubs, etc. Reverberation ceilings, bar joists or pre-engineered
times can be lowered from a RT60 of 4 - suspension systems. They are designed
9 seconds down to a RT60 of 0.5 - 2 to hang in a horizontal or in a catenary
seconds. Speech intelligibility is greatly fashion using edge stiffeners or deck
improved and sound intensity levels can mounted flat with washer plates
be simultaneously reduced by 3 to 12
decibels.
•These baffles are easily suspended from existing open truss and pre-
engineered suspension systems. They are designed to hang in a
vertical fashion, allowing free flow of air and integrate exceptionally
well with existing sprinklers, lighting and HVAC systems.
 SOUND DIFFUSERS
• These devices reduce the intensity of sound by scattering it over an expanded area, rather than
eliminating the sound reflections as an absorber would. Traditional spatial diffusers, such as
the polycylindrical (barrel) shapes also double as low frequency traps. Temporal diffusers,
such as binary arrays and quadratics, scatter sound in a manner similar to diffraction of light,
where the timing of reflections from an uneven surface of varying depths causes interference
which spreads the sound.
QUADRA PYRAMID PYRAMIDAL DIFFUSER
This defuser generates a uniform polar
•This traditional industry workhorse
response over a broad frequency range
disperses sound uniformly over a
using a pre-rotated pyramidal pattern to broad frequency range. A quick
create 16 angles of reflection. solution to reduce flutter echo.

DOUBLE DUTY DIFFUSER

QUADRATIC DIFFUSER
•These Polycylindrical A true quadratic
Diffusers do twice the residue diffuser
work. They scatter sound designed for uniform
and function as a bass broadband scattering
trap. and reducing High-Q
reflections.
 NOISE BARRIERS
These materials range from dense materials to block the transmission of airborne sound to
devices and compounds used to isolate structures from one another and reduce impact noise.

BARRIERS
COMPOSITES
•Sound barrier materials are used to •Composite materials are manufactured
reduce the transmission of airborne from combinations of various materials
sound. The BlockAid® series of from open and closed celled foams to
products include the standard one quilted fiberglass and barrier. These
pound per square foot non products are used to block and absorb sound
reinforced barrier, transparent for machine enclosures as well as blocking
material when observation or airborne sound and impact noise. Some of
supervision is required, reinforced these products include Composite Foams,
vinyl to create a hanging barrier StratiQuilt Blankets and Floor
partition. Underlayment.
VIBRATION CONTROL

•Vibration control products are used to absorb vibration energy and

prevent structural noise transmission. These include vibration damping
compounds and vibration pads, isolation hangers, and resilient clips. They
improve sound transmission loss.
 FABRICS
• Acoustical fabrics are typically used to either absorb sound or as a cover for acoustical panels.
Some fabrics can also be used as a speaker grill cloth or as a finish on other types of
materials.
SOUND CHANNELS WALL FABRICS GUILFORD OF MAINE
•Acoustical wall fabric is a dimensional fabric that
offers excellent acoustical properties, unmatched •Guilford of Maine Fabric is and
fade resistance, and a fire/smoke retardant class A acoustically transparent fabric used to
rating. Sound channels is resistant to cover many of our products including
moisture, mildew, rot, bacteria, and is non- acoustical wall panels, diffusers, and
allergenic. Produced with no voc’s (volatile corner traps. Fabric is also sold separately
organic compounds), ods’s (ozone depleting as speaker grill cloth, wall covering and for
substances), heavy metals or formaldehyde, it's the other field applications.
perfect acoustic fabric for
offices, classrooms, conference centers or any area
where speech intelligibility is a critical factor.