Gabions:

In engineering, the gabions are retained stones containers with wire mesh. Place disassembled on site and, once in place, filled with stones of the place.

As the operations of assembly and filling of stones require no skill, using gabions can perform works that would otherwise require much more time and make mesh especializados.Se operators (triple twisting and squared type 8 × 10 cm) steel wire (low carbon) 2.7 mm, which is given three layers of galvanized zinc with 270 grams.

The edges of the gabions are also reinforced with wire of 3.4 mm wire is also used for clamping the pieces of 2.2 mm.

Gabions have different aspects, it is often found in the form of boxes or mattresses that can have long 1.5, 2, 3 and 4 meters, a width of 1 meter and a height of 0.5 or 1.0 meters.

Uses:

• Retaining walls, gabion walls are designed to maintain a difference in floor levels on both sides are an important group of elements of support and protection when it is located in river beds
• Soil Conservation: accelerated water erosion is considered extremely detrimental to the floors, because due to this phenomenon, large areas of fertile soils are lost, because the solid material that appears in the middle and upper catchment causes siltation of the hydraulic, electrical, agricultural and communication that exists in the lower
• Control of rivers: rivers, the gabion accelerates the equilibrium state of the channel. Prevents erosion, transportation of materials and collapses margins, plus the growing controls protecting gull populations valleys and flood
• Decorative, have recently been used as a new resource. Example: Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires

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