Sound Dead Steel
Sound Dead Steel (SDS) specialise in providing noise and vibration reduction solutions using materials and techniques that provide cost-effective practical results.
SDS Products
Sonphonon™ Laminated Steel
Laminated Steel is available in a variety of thickness and sheet size. SDS can make laminates from 1mm to 8mm thick in aluminium, cold rolled, hot rolled, stainless and galvanised steels, including automotive grades. Sheets can be de-coiled to most lengths, common widths are 1000mm, 2000mm and 1500mm. SDS also provide a cutting and profiling service.
Sonphonon™ Self Adhesive Dampers
Self Adhesive Dampers are also available in a variety of thickness, grades of steel/aluminium and sheet size. Thickness can be from 0.5mm to 4mm. Grades and sizes are the same as the laminates.
Sonphonon™ Flexible 2 Pack Adhesive
Flexible 2 Pack Adhesive is a special adhesive which doesn’t glass when cured, this means impacts won’t shatter it and because it remains slightly flexible it transmits energy into our damped steel more efficiently. It also helps bond our laminated dampers to rough surfaces as it can fill up to 3mm.
Turnkey packages can be provided which includes design, manufacture, installation, commissioning, servicing, full control systems and bespoke pallets & tooling.
Manufactured Products
- Acoustic Enclosures & Guards bespoke design service, we can design and fabricate or build to your drawings.
- Portable Acoustic Screens and blankets to place or hang around noisy machinery or to create a haven.
- Industrial Acoustic Absorbent Wall Panels in standard panel sizes or made to measure acoustic panels for wall mounting to reduce resonance and reflected sound.
- Skids For Power Packs & Gen Sets we can manufacture skids to GNV standards for offshore and onshore use.
- Quiet Extract Fan Technology designed by the INVC.co.uk, manufactured and installed by Sound Dead Steel.
SDS produce range of steel/aluminium vibration dampers which are available in 2000mm*1000mm, 2500mm*1250mm, 3000mm*1500mm or cut to size. The thickness of the material can be specified from 0.5mm up to 4.0mm
Avoids Fabrication Issues
Folding a laminated SDS sheet can result in slippage between the two layers of steel. This is avoided by fabricating in the traditional way and bonding the SDS dampers on afterwards, acoustic benefits are not affected.
Avoids Welding Issues
Welding acoustic laminates can be tricky as the polymer often isolates the two layers of steel. One solution is to fabricate and weld the traditional way, then apply an SDS damper to the flat areas avoiding welds and folds.
Powder Coating
Laminates and dampers can be supplied with high a temperature polymer or silicone so dampers can be fitted prior to anodising or powder coating.
Low Cost Solution
SDS dampers are an effective way to solve potentially expensive noise issues.
Lighter Construction Saves Costs
The fabrication can be made out of a thinner gauge of steel as the constrained layer damping principle does not rely on mass to reduce vibration.
Metal Fatigue
SDS also has the additional benefit of helping to reduce metal fatigue by damping out harmful vibrations & harmonics, which makes it ideal for vibratory feeders and chutes.