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I have used gabions in this application (we used &#;river rounds&#; because they are a locally available resource).
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The wire in the gabion panels is pretty stiff and would be limited to large curves (unless you have it molded to shape in a machine shop), but I have made round columns using thinner guage meshes (aka agricultural livestock fencing, hardware cloth etc). The nice thing about curvalinear design is the stability of the shape means you don&#;t need as much tensile strength in the mesh&#;just strong enough not to bulge or sag. You can even counteract this by placing a hollow structure (if a column, use pvc pipe for instance) in the center to remove some of the pressure.
Mark
J.A.
I have used gabions in this application (we used &#;river rounds&#; because they are a locally available resource).
The wire in the gabion panels is pretty stiff and would be limited to large curves (unless you have it molded to shape in a machine shop), but I have made round columns using thinner guage meshes (aka agricultural livestock fencing, hardware cloth etc). The nice thing about curvalinear design is the stability of the shape means you don&#;t need as much tensile strength in the mesh&#;just strong enough not to bulge or sag. You can even counteract this by placing a hollow structure (if a column, use pvc pipe for instance) in the center to remove some of the pressure.
Mark