Gabion mattress or gabion mat is a galvanized double twisted hexagonal woven mesh compartmented basket with a rectangular mattress shape. The compartments or cells of the mattress are of equal size and dimension and are formed by internal diaphragms. It offer many advantages, such as flexibility, durability, strength, permeability, ecology, reliability, longevity, low cost and an aesthetic appearance. The thickness of mattress is usually between 0.15-0.5m. It is similar to gabion box which could be divided by several cells and adopts thicker diameter wires to form mesh edge.
Materials: low carbon steel wire, stainless steel wire, electro galvanized wire, hot-galvanized wire, heavily galvanized wire.
Surface Treatment: heavy zinc coating or PVC coating
Features:
Control and guide of water or flood
Flood bank or guiding bank
Preventing of rock breaking
Water and soil protection
Bridge protection
Strengthening structure of soil
Protection engineering of seaside area.
Application:
Gabion mattresses, especially river gabion mattresses play an important part in preventing natural scour of water and retaining earth. It is mainly applied for river bank protection as well as foreshore and side slope protection. Meanwhile, it provides protection on water courses and coastal revetments against scour and erosion.
