“…A summary of technical data for several direct shear box devices is presented in Table 7. [Huang, et al, 1993;Ahola, et al, 1996; Bakthar and Barton 1984; Barbero, et al, 1996;Kana, et al, 1996;Fox, et al, 1998;Homand-Etienne, et al, 1999;Lee, et al, 2001;Jafari, et al, 2003;Wang, et al, 2007;Buzzi, et al, 2008]. However, these dynamic shear box devices were developed for tests on significant smaller samples and they are of quite different types.…”