The modification of elastic properties of compressed acoustic foams is investigated. The porous sample is first submitted to a static compression and then to a dynamic excitation of smaller amplitude, corresponding to acoustical applications. The static compression induces the modification of the dynamic elastic parameters of the material. This work focuses on Young’s modulus. The variation is measured with two different experimental methods: The classical rigidimeter and an absorption measurement. The effective Young’s modulus is directly measured with the first method and is indirectly determined through the quarter-wave length resonance of the frame with the second one. The results of the two measurements are compared and give similar tendencies. The variation of the dynamic Young’s modulus as a function of the degree of compression of the sample is shown to be separated in several zones. In the zones associated with weak compression (those usually zones encountered in practice), the variation of the effective Young’s modulus can be approximated by a simple affine function. The results are compared for different foams. A simple model of the dependency of the Young’s modulus with respect to the static degree of compression is finally proposed for weak compressions.
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