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What are the benefits of gabion retaining wall?

Retaining wall and protective slope is build by gabion boxes, the filler inside them is loose body, there are more pores, which will help the filling after the masonry and the water discharges in the pore of earth under the slope protection. Once the surface water sank into the soil, it can rapidly discharge through the masonry to effectively lower the groundwater levels, thereby reducing the groundwater pressure behind the wall and the slope. Green grid structure in landslide and debris flow control works, water discharged in time reduced the risk of damage to the wall, while the good ability of deformation of the wall effectively buffer the impact of unexpected external force. 

Gabion mesh is widely used. It can withstand different types of pressure and can be installed and reversed according to the surface device. At the same time they must have sufficient capacity to withstand the weight of stone and other weight placed on top of their cage net. They also have to withstand rain erosion, and remain the structural integrity.

Gabion retaining wall,as a new type of retaining structure, has been more and more used with its low cost, eco-good, wide scope of application, and the flexible deformation characteristics.

Gabion retaining wall: is a new type of flexible masonry retaining structures,which fill the flexible wire cage with stones which meet the size requirements to up to a certain porosity and stacked layer by layer. Gabion protection is applicable to retaining walls,slope and revetment for prevent water erosion and storms. It has been widely used in road projects in foreign countries. For example, the retaining wall in Highway 1, Monterey, California,USA; road SS556 in Arezzo Province,Italy; retaining wall used to support the road lateral slope in Ontario, Canada; as well as In France, Germany, Norway, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and other country, this structure is applied to river slope protection, soil retaining, bridge construction and other units.

In recent years, this new structure has also been applied in China, mainly for river bank slope protection. For example, the slope protection successfully used in Yangtze Dike, Li River bank protection works from Guilin to Yangshuo, and in Chongqing Fengjie Pagoda Pyong Landslide Treatment Works involving river sections also used some of the gabion retaining wall structure, and achieved good effects.

Gabion retaining wall advantages:

Environmental protection is one of China's basic national policy, retaining walls also need to harmonize with the natural environment as far as possible in order to improve the environmental quality of roads. Due to a greater porosity (20% ~ 30%),gabion retaining wall no need to set scuppers, expansion joints and settlement joint can also be simply laid.

Compared with other forms of retaining walls, gabion retaining wall had advantages of ecological good, low cost, can withstand large deformation without damage and so on.

Although compared to other structural forms of retaining walls, gabion retaining wall has many advantages, but the construction site should be selected in the stone-rich areas, and the stone size, strength, degree of weathering are required to meet the requirements. If need long-distance transport of stones, the cost will increase.So in terms of technically feasible, should make an economic comparison between the retaining walls and other structural forms.