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This paper investigates experimentally the quasi-static and dynamic responses of cured and uncured polymers for seven different materials\u2014two different products of polyvinyl butyral (PVB), two ethylene vinyl acetate products (EVA), one product of thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU), and two SentryGlas products (SG)\u2014that were tested between 21 and 32 \u00b0C (69.8 and 89.6 \u00b0F), which is the recommended room temperature. In these experiments, the responses of PVB, EVA, TPU, and SG were evaluated under a quasi-static strain rate of 0.033 s\u22121 and compared to the results under a relatively higher strain rate of 2 s\u22121. Moreover, the high strain rate loading of the materials was accomplished using a drop-weight testing appliance to evaluate the engineering stress\u2013strain response under strain rates between 20 and 50 s\u22121. The results demonstrated that with strain rates of 20 s\u22121, PVB behaved like a material with viscoelastic characteristics, but at 45 s\u22121 strain rates, PVB became a non-elastic material. SG, on the other hand, offered both a high stiffness and a high level of transparency, making it a very good alternative to PVB in structural applications. In contrast, after the maximum stress point, the response to the failure of the seven materials differed significantly. 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