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  2. Revetment - Wikipedia

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    Asphalt and sandbag revetment with a geotextile filter. A revetment in stream restoration, river engineering or coastal engineering is a facing of impact-resistant material (such as stone, concrete, sandbags, or wooden piles) applied to a bank or wall in order to absorb the energy of incoming water and protect it from erosion.

  3. Gabion - Wikipedia

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    Reinforced earth with gabions supporting a multilane roadway Gabions as X-ray protection during customs inspection. A gabion (from Italian gabbione meaning "big cage"; from Italian gabbia and Latin cavea meaning "cage") is a cage, cylinder or box filled with rocks, concrete, or sometimes sand and soil for use in civil engineering, road building, military applications and landscaping.

  4. Dry stone - Wikipedia

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    While the dry stone technique is most commonly used for the construction of double-wall stone walls and single-wall retaining terracing, dry stone sculptures, buildings, fortifications, bridges, and other structures also exist. Traditional turf-roofed Highland blackhouses were constructed using the double-wall dry stone method. When buildings ...

  5. Retaining wall - Wikipedia

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    A gravity-type stone retaining wall. Retaining walls are relatively rigid walls used for supporting soil laterally so that it can be retained at different levels on the two sides. Retaining walls are structures designed to restrain soil to a slope that it would not naturally keep to (typically a steep, near-vertical or vertical slope).

  6. List of largest monoliths - Wikipedia

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    The Western Stone of the Western Wall in Jerusalem weighs 517 t. Neolithic Carnac Stones, France Stećci of medieval Radimlja necropolis, Stolac, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Cyclopean walls of the ancient Illyrian city of Daorson, Stolac, in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Brownshill Dolmen, Ireland (4th millennium BC). The great capstone weighs about 100 ...

  7. Breakwater (structure) - Wikipedia

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    Types of breakwaters include vertical wall breakwater, mound breakwater and mound with superstructure or composite breakwater. A breakwater structure is designed to absorb the energy of the waves that hit it, either by using mass (e.g. with caissons), or by using a revetment slope (e.g. with rock or concrete armour units).

  8. Gravel - Wikipedia

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    Gravel (/ ˈ ɡ r æ v əl /) is a loose aggregation of rock fragments. Gravel occurs naturally on Earth as a result of sedimentary and erosive geological processes; it is also produced in large quantities commercially as crushed stone. Gravel is classified by particle size range and includes size classes from granule- to boulder-sized fragments.

  9. Wing wall - Wikipedia

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    Wing walls can be classified according to their position in plan with respect to banks and abutments. The classification is as follows: Straight wing walls: used for small bridges, on drains with low banks and for railway bridges in cities (weep holes are provided). Splayed wing walls: used for bridges across rivers. They provide smooth entry ...

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