Advantages of Gabion Engineering over Reinforced Concrete and Masonry Structures

Compared with reinforced concrete, masonry and other projects, gabion mesh and gabion mesh projects have the following obvious advantages:
(1) Flexible and pliable wire mesh projects have excellent adaptability to deformation or bending.
When ground settlement or foundation deformation occurs occasionally and the foundation of the building undergoes inherent foundation settlement, a kind of interlaced tension and compression is formed on the outside of the wire mesh, which can adapt to external deformation without breaking.
A field experiment of a project in Manchester, UK.
On the upper part of a group of long wire mesh cage beams filled with kilograms of stone, a load of kilograms is added. Under the action of external load, the middle part of the beam bends and deforms, but the wire mesh cage beam has never broken or damaged.
(2) Permeability Since wire mesh has excellent drainage function, the use of wire mesh projects in water-resistant water-retaining buildings with changing water levels can avoid the need for drainage holes.
In riverbank projects, it can eliminate or increase the pressure on the retaining wall that changes with the water depth, which is beneficial to the stability and safety of the building.
(3) Low cost. The stones and pebbles filled in the wire mesh cage can be adapted to local conditions and are suitable for construction in mountainous areas with convenient transportation.
Compared with other projects, it does not require the purchase of a large number of templates and mechanical equipment.
The project cost is relatively low.
(4) Fast construction. After the foundation excavation is completed, the wire mesh building can be built in one go.
During construction, it can also avoid the construction of cofferdams in rivers and beaches, which will increase drainage costs.
Construction in waterless areas can be completed by laying nets, filling stones and connecting and reinforcing.
When underwater construction is carried out in inland areas of rivers, the wire mesh cage can be installed in advance, then hoisted and placed in place, or shipped to the predetermined location by ship. This method can be used for diversion projects.
(5) Easy to maintain. Since the wire mesh cage is equipped with partitions in the longitudinal direction, these partitions divide the wire mesh cage into independent cubes. Therefore, when a cube is damaged and the stones are loosened, resulting in it being washed away by the water flow, it is only infinite and partial. In addition, since the partial protection of the bidirectional interwoven wire mesh is not easy to expand, it is very cumbersome to maintain. It is only necessary to repair the partial protection mesh and refill it with stones for continuous use. The box-shaped structure made of this mesh is the gabion mesh structure.