There are various special designs of gabion baskets construction to meet particular functional requirements and some special terms for particular forms have come into use
The most common civil engineering use of gabions is stabilize shorelines, stream banks or slopes against erosion.Other uses include retaining walls,river training,or channel lining.
0.5m or 1m. The traditional use of gabion baskets was that when rock filled they could be designed to act as a monolith mass for retaining wall
Rock Mattresses are a thin gabion and traditionally has been used in applications such as creek and channel linings where long term scour is an issue.