What Sound Absorbing Material Do You Recommend?

Today we’re going to talk about sound absorbing materials. Sound absorbing materials are different than sound damping materials. In our last video in the series we talked about sound damping materials so today we’re going to look at the other side of the coin.

Sound absorbing materials convert sound energy into heat, that’s how absorption occurs. So when sound energy strikes a surface that’s absorptive, there’s an energy change going on. We’re not destroying the energy, we’re changing it to a new form namely heat.

Heat is part of the absorption process. There are different kinds of sound absorption technologies for different sound absorption requirements. Low-frequency requires a different type of technology than middle and high frequency absorption. Let’s use some examples.

Low-frequency absorption: Hemholtz resonators, diaphragmatic absorbers. These are specially designed sound absorbing devices that work off of sound pressure. Then we have middle and high frequency absorption. What do we have as examples in that area? We have foam, draperies, carpeting, furniture, anything that’s porous, that lets sound or lets air flow through it.

So we have all kinds of materials that we can use for sound absorption technologies, but we must match the material with the technology and what we’re trying to accomplish. So if it’s low-frequency we have a certain kind of technology we have to apply but if it’s middle and high frequency we have a certain technology that we have to apply.

Broadband absorption is an absorption product technology that works across all those three areas.

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Dennis