ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD GABION
From French: basket, from Italian gabbione, from gabbia cage, from Latin cavea.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GABION»
Discover the use of
gabion in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
gabion and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Deep Excavations: A Practical Manual
The steel gabion cage itself can be protected either by galvanizing or plastic
coating. Typical, economical gabion wall heights range from 5 to 10m depending
on soil conditions. As an aid to stability it is usual to tilt the face of the wall at a
batter ...
Usually confined to large road and grading projects, the gabion is also ideal for
addressing large-scale wall projects. With their wide base and heavy weight,
gabions are quite stable and can be stacked three or four units high. The open
nature ...
3
Hydrology and Soil Conservation Engineering: Including ...
The design procedure for gabion walls is similar to that for gravity walls. During
their design, as a rule of thumb (Datta, 1986), the bottom width of a gabion wall is
kept equal to 21 3rd of the height of the wall, which tapers off upwards. Under the
...
4
Performance of Reinforced Soil Structures: Proceedings of ...
S. C. LO and S. Q. LI, Department of Civil and Maritime Engineering, University
College, University of New South Wales This paper presents the research and
development in the use of Gabion-mattress in stabilising embankment on soft
clay.
Alan McGown, Khen Yeo, K. Z. Andrawes, 1991
5
Restoring Streams in Cities: A Guide for Planners, ...
And the wire can be cut and vandalized. These practical problems with gabions
in urban settings joined with our objective to restore ecological systems with our
projects should relegate the gabion to a rarely used status to revegetate a site.
6
Port Engineering: Planning, Construction, Maintenance, and ...
Then the adjacent gabions are filled to a depth of about 25 to 30 cm, and wire is
placed in each direction and looped around two meshes of the gabion wall. This
operation is repeated until the gabion is filled. The containers should be filled ...
7
Stone: Building Stone, Rock Fill and Armourstone in Construction
to allow the rock in the gabion to be placed to fill the gabion well. As gabions
should be filled by hand to prevent damage to the gabion mesh, handling of the
material is also a consideration. 1n environmentally sensitive areas, the rock fill
in ...
8
The Iron-band
Gabion, and Its Applicability to Various Field ...
85. “Report of the various kinds of Iron Gabions which were in “use at the
RoyalEngineer Establishment at Chatham, during “the Summer of 1856, by Capt.
George Philips, R.E., Assistant “Instructor of Field Works. “The advantage of this
Gabion ...
John JONES (Serjeant Major, R.E.), 1860
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Biotechnical and Soil Bioengineering Slope Stabilization: A ...
Soil may be drifted into the gabion revetment after installation of the cuttings. A
sandy soil with good drainage characteristics that fills the spaces between the
rocks works best. This soil helps the establishment of the cuttings, accelerates the
...
10
Hydraulics of Stepped Chutes and Spillways
Stacked gabions Counter-weir Gabion drop structure with counter-weir Figure
7.11. Typical gabion weirs. 7.6.2 Description of the material Gabions used as
construction material consist of rockfill material enlaced by a basket or a mesh.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GABION»
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gabion is used in the context of the following news items.
For want of water
... are using local labour and prefabricated materials, such as polythene pipes, polythene sheets and gabion wire, to restore damaged canals. «E Kantipur, Jul 15»
LEED Gold-targeting campus built to climate
Locally sourced granite lines the slope, contained in Gabion wire baskets, and features prominently on the face of the building's lower floors. «REMI Network - Real Estate Management Industry Network, Jul 15»
Siltation Gradually Choking Lake Magadi
... to plant indigenous trees while also educating them on the best farming practices such as dykes and gabion constructions downstream. «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
Tuckerton Approves Ordinance Favoring Businesses
... agreements on Little Egg Harbor Boulevard in Tuckerton Beach that are to be the site of gabion cages of rocks and perhaps dredge sediment ... «The SandPaper, Jul 15»
Spurn visitor centre design is in step with nature
The lower floor would be built using concrete reclaimed on-site as filling for gabion - or caged - walls. An open structure, it could be inhabited ... «Yorkshire Post, Jun 15»
Authorities sit on strengthening of embankments | Srinagar NYOOOZ
It seems Government is in hibernation. With few inches of rainfall, we have to migrate to safer places. Authorities must construct gabion walls to ... «NYOOOZ, Jun 15»
Nkabom House is a prototypical Ghanaian home made from mud …
The first step in the construction process was to level and stabilise the site by compacting loose earth and introducing gabion cages filled with ... «Dezeen, Jun 15»
Authorities sit on strengthening of embankments
With few inches of rainfall, we have to migrate to safer places. Authorities must construct gabion walls to prevent breach of embankment,” they ... «GreaterKashmir.com, Jun 15»
When the protector turned destroyer
The sea has already flushed out a 1,640 m-long gabion flexible protection wall built by water resources department (WRD) around six years ... «Times of India, Jun 15»
New Castle still cleaning up after flooding
“Yeah, we're probably going to put Gabion baskets up on the hillside to shore up the hill, because it's pretty saturated,” Rooney said. “And this ... «WKBN.com, Jun 15»
