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GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT
GABION
• The word “GABION” is taken from
Italian word gabbione which means
big cage
• It is a wire mesh cage or basket filled
with stones
• The Gabion is generally a wire mesh
and when it is filled with stones, it is
called as a GABION Structure
DEFINITION OF
GABION
• A Gabion is a cage, cylinder, or box filled
with rocks, concrete, or sometimes sand
and soil for use in civil engineering, road
building, military applications and
landscaping
• The filling material such as stone has size
greater than the mesh opening of Gabion
HISTORY
GABIONS
WELDED
WOVEN MESH
MESH
GABIONS
GABIONS
WELDED MESH
GABIONS
• Manufactured normally from a square
mesh
• Opening Size ( 76.2 * 76.2 )mm
• The wire diameter vary according to
application
• The flexibility of this type of gabion
depend upon wire diameter
WOVEN MESH GABION
• Galvanized Wire
• Hexagonal triple twisted mesh in
the size ranging from 7.5to15cm
• Wire no-8 gauge, less than10
gauge is not used
CONSTRUCTION STEPS OF GABIONS
STEP 1: Find out the area of mesh involved in each gabion box
STEP 5 : Compute the cost of rock filling per 100 m³ .It is given as cost
of rock filing * capacity of gabion
• Durable
• Permanent
• Easy to
construct
• Economical
APPLICATIONS OF GABIONS
• Landscaping and Architecture
• Channel Linings
Elements
• Headwalls
• Culvert Outlets • Rockfill Mitigation Netting
• COST-EFFECTIVENESS • SPEED
• VERSTAILITY • DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY
CONCLUDING REMARKS
• A cost analysis was done and it was seen that about 70% cost effectiveness
has achieved by the adoption of Gabion-Mattress solution instead of the
concrete
• The success of this structure gave a lot of confidence to the Construction
Industry in Maharashtra especially in Nashik to adopt Gabion flexible
structures for black cotton soil
COMPLETED STRUCTURE STRUCTURE AFTER 10 YEARS