Hexagonal Woven Steel Gabion Baskets Retaining Wall 4mm Wire Diameter

Gabion Rock Cages Introduction:

This Gabion Wall has been designed and constructed to retain the site boundary along the length of a new access road to a new industrial development. The gabions were filled with crushed concrete and faced with 6g stone fill.

A gabion wall is more than a basket full of rock. It is a hand made, unique and stylish look that has a lifespan far exceeding our time.

Retaining Wall Specification:

Retaining Wall Standard:
Heavily zinc-coated steel wire conforming to ASTM A 641, Class 3 coating, soft temper;
Zn-5Al-MM-Coated steel wire conforming to ASTM A 856/856M, Class 3, soft temper;
The same type of metallic-coated steel wire as above, but with an additional PVC coating extruded onto the metallic-coated steel wire;
l Aluminum-coated steel wire conforming to ASTM A 809, soft temper;
The most popular wire diameter for gabion baskets is 2.7mm, 2.2mm for revet mattress.

Retaining Wall Feature:

How to install welded gabion box?
1. Ends, diaphragms, front and back panels are placed upright on the bottom section of wire mesh.
2. Secure panels by screwing spiral binders through the mesh openings in adjacent panels.
3. Stiffeners shall be placed across the corners, at 300mm from the corner. Providing a diagonal bracing, and crimped over the line and cross wires on the front and side faces. None are needed in interior cells.
4. Gabion box filled with graded stone by hand or with a shovel.
5. After filling, close the lid and secure with spiral binders at the diaphragms, ends, front and back.
6. When stacking tiers of the welded gabion box, the lid of the lower tier may serve as the base of the upper tier. Secure with spiral binders and add pre-formed stiffeners to exterior cells before filling with graded stones.

Retaining Wall Application:

• Control and guide of water or flood

• Flood bank or guiding bank

• Preventing of rock breaking

• Bridge Protection

• Water and soil protection

• Coast protection

• Seaport engineering

• Strengthening structure of soil

• Protection of road