Garden gabion stone walls and fences / gabion fence stability
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In civil engineering a gabion wall is a retaining wall made of
rectangular containers (baskets) fabricated of thick galvanized
wire, which are filled with stone and stacked on one another,
usually in tiers that step back with the slope rather than
vertically.
The most common civil engineering use of gabions is to stabilize
shorelines or slopes against erosion. Other uses include retaining
walls, temporary floodwalls, to filter silt from runoff, for small
or temporary/permanent dams, river training, channel lining.
They may be used to direct the force of a flow of flood water
around a vulnerable structure. Gabions are also used as fish
barriers on small streams. Gabion baskets have some advantages over
loose riprap because of their modularity and ability to be stacked
in various shapes; they are also resistant to being washed away by
moving water.
Gabions also have advantages over more rigid structures because
they can conform to ground movement, dissipate energy from flowing
water, and drain freely. Their strength and effectiveness may
increase with time in some cases, as silt and vegetation fill the
interstitial voids and reinforce the structure. They are sometimes
used to keep stones which may fall from a cutting or cliff from
endangering traffic on a thoroughfare.
| Nominal gabions basket size (m) | No. of diaphragms
for reinforcing(no.) | Capacity per basket
(m3) |
| 1.0x1.0x0.5 | | 0.50 |
| 1.0x1.0x1.0 | | 1.00 |
| 1.5x1.0x0.5 | | 0.75 |
| 1.5x1.0x1.0 | | 1.50 |
| 2.0x1.0x0.5 | 1 | 1.00 |
| 2.0x1.0x1.0 | 1 | 2.00 |
| 3.0x1.0x0.5 | 2 | 1.50 |
| 3.0x1.0x1.0 | 2 | 3.00 |
| 4.0x1.0x0.5 | 3 | 2.00 |
| 4.0x1.0x1.0 | 3 | 4.00 |
welded wire mesh gabion applications :
Fence Gabion
Hang hedges
Noise barriers
Privacy walls
Landscaping
HOW TO INSTALL THE GABION BASKET
Join your galvanised wire panels together with wire to form the
base and sides of the boxes. Hold each box in place by sprial wire
down each corner of the box. This will hold the box shape while you
fill the box with rocks.
