Loading rate in some materials such as plastics affects the mechanical response due to viscous effects. In plastics at very low strain rate (quasi-static) the
molecular chains have adequate time to align themselves with respect to the load. In higher
strain rates this time becomes smaller and as a result the material exhibits stiffer behavior. As resin followos a visco elasto visco plastic behabior the more abrupt the loading is the higher the stress response will be.