Galvanized Welded Cages are made of steel wire mesh, laced together and filled with stones to form monolithic structures that can provide a cost effective and sometimes unique solution to many problems in river works, soil stabilisation, flood and scour protection and coastal defence.
Steel wire gabions are useful to control erosion around bridge and culvert structures or other locations subject to scouring at the base of the embankment or drainage channel. Gabions and mattresses consist of rectangular units, fabricated from welded wire fabric or twisted hexagonal mesh zinc or PVC (polyvinyl chloride) coated wire. Filled with stone, gabions become large, flexible and permeable elements from which a broad range of structures can be built (retaining walls, river bank protection, weirs, etc.). Gabions are divided into cells with diaphragms, whose function is to reinforce the structure.
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