“…This issue has attracted the attention of many engineers and researchers, and a handful of studies have been conducted to evaluate the geosynthetic-reinforced and semi-rigid column-supported embankments. These vary from laboratory tests (Chen et al, 2008a;Van Eekelen et al, 2012a, 2012bXu et al, 2016;Debnath and Dey, 2017;Esmaeili et al, 2017;Mehdizadeh et al, 2018) to full-scale experiments (Chen et al, 2010;Liu et al, 2012;Hong et al, 2014;Weng et al, 2014;Liu et al, 2015;Rowe and Liu, 2015;Van Eekelen et al, 2015;Cao et al, 2016;Van Eekelen et al, 2017;Michalowski et al, 2018;Tano et al, 2018;Wang et al, 2018aWang et al, , 2018c and from analytical models (Balaam and Booker, 1981;Deb, 2010;Karim et al, 2011;Van Eekelen et al, 2011Zhou et al, 2012;Yang et al, 2013;Zhuang et al, 2014;Jamsawang et al, 2016;Van Eekelen, 2016;Feng et al, 2017b;Zhao et al, 2017) to numerical simulations (Huang and Han, 2009;Jiang et al, 2014;Kamash and Han, 2014;Lai et al, 2014;Yoo, 2015;Zhuang and Wang, 2015;Liu et al, 2017;…”