Gabion vs Riprap - What's the difference?
gabion | riprap |
A cylindrical basket or cage of wicker which was filled with earth or stones and used in fortifications and other engineering work (a precursor to the sandbag).
A woven wire mesh unit, sometimes rectangular, made from a continuous mesh panel and filled with stones sometimes coated with polyvinyl chloride.
A porous metal cylinder filled with stones and used in a variety of civil engineering contexts, especially in the construction of retaining walls, the reinforcing of steep slopes, or in the prevention of erosion in river banks.
A knickknack, objet d'art, curiosity, collectable.
* 1774 , James Cant, introduction, The Muses Threnodie'' p. vi, quoted in 2004, ''Reliquiae Trotcosiensis , Edinburgh University Press, p.6,
An underwater bank seen as a danger to shipping.
*1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 423:
*:They hold on, spray flying, the ceaseless racket of water impacting on rock all but swallowing them, the river pitching dizzily, snags and riprap raking like claws at the bottom of the boat.
Rocks or other materials used to shore up an embankment, deter or prevent erosion, guide shipping, or serve as a temporary mooring.
To form a riprap in or upon.
As nouns the difference between gabion and riprap
is that gabion is a cylindrical basket or cage of wicker which was filled with earth or stones and used in fortifications and other engineering work (a precursor to the sandbag) while riprap is an underwater bank seen as a danger to shipping.As a verb riprap is
to form a riprap in or upon.gabion
English
Noun
(en noun)- Reliquiae Trotcosienses: Or, the Gabions of the Late Jonathan Oldbuck Esq. of Monkbarns — title of unfinished novel by Walter Scott.
- The meaning of the word Gabion , as it is used in the poem, is not to be sought for in any dictionary. It was of the venerable old gentleman Mr Ruthven?s own coining, and it was well enough understood among his select friends, to mean nothing else but the miscellaneous curiosities in his closet humorously described in the poem.