... units, fabricated from a double-twisted hexagonal mesh. Filled with stones, gabions become large, flexible and permeable elements from which ... protections, weirs, channel linings etc. GABIONSare divided into cells with diaphragms (usually spaced at 1 meter or 3’ intervals), whose ... (except for the diaphragms) is reinforced on all edges with wires of a larger diameter to strengthen the gabions and ...