“…Other synthetic (e.g., asphalt, glass, rubber, carbon fibers) and natural fibers (e.g., coir, banana, and oil palm empty fruit bunch fibers) have also been utilized as sand/clay reinforcement material. ( Ahmad et al, 2010 ; Mittal and Gill, 2018 ; Namjoo et al, 2019 ; Patel and Singh, 2019 ; Sridhar and Prathap Kumar, 2018 ; Xiao et al, 2019 ). Regarding the fiber-reinforced soil, fibers behave as tension-resisting elements in soil, thus improving soil peak strength and limiting the post-peak shear resistance losses ( Mandolini et al, 2019 ; Wang and Brennan, 2019 ).…”