KINETICS® Solutions | The Ultimate in Equipment Isolation
KINETICS® CIB Inertia bases are used to support mechanical equipment, reduce equipment vibration, provide for attachment of vibration isolators, prevent differential movement between driving and driven members, reduce rocking by lowering equipment center of gravity, reduce motion of equipment during start-up and shut-down, act to reduce reaction movement due to operating loads on equipment and act as a noise barrier.
Typical uses for inertia base frames, with poured concrete and supported by noise and vibration isolators, include use with open-type centrifugal chillers, reciprocating air and refrigeration compressors, chillers, heat pumps, close-coupled and base-mounted pumps, centrifugal fans, internal combustion engines, and similar types of equipment.
Inertia Base Frames incorporate a unique structural design that integrates perimeter channels, isolator support brackets, reinforcing rods, anchor bolts, and concrete fill into a controlled load transfer system, utilizing steel in tension and concrete in compression, resulting in high strength and stiffness with minimum steel frame weight. Completed inertia bases using model CIB frames are stronger and stiffer than standard inertia base frames using heavier steel members.
Chiller noise control, airflow noise control for outside air intake and discharge air from constant power and backup generator rooms, generator room noise control, vibration isolation, and seismic restraint.