Block-formed revetment system for controlling soil erosion

Details Block-formed revetment system for controlling soil erosion Block-formed revetment system for controlling soil erosion

1989-07-14

1991-06-04

Taylor, Dennis L.

Hydraulic and earth engineering

Bank, shore, or bed protection

Revetment

405 19, 52608, E02B 312

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050209388

ABSTRACT:
A revetment block for being coupled with other similar blocks to form a flexible revetment mat for controlling erosion of soil, having a grid having a top surface, a bottom surface, and a plurality of side surfaces, and wherein a tongue extends from at least one of the side surfaces, each tongue having a height and width less than the total height and width of the grid, and wherein each of the side surfaces which has no tongue has a tongue receiving cavity surrounded by a pair of cavity sidewalls, a cavity backwall and a cavity upperwall, the cavity being of a size sufficient to receive and allow limited vertical and horizontal movement of tongues from other blocks within the cavity.

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patent: 3602111 (1971-08-01), Clemente
patent: 3873225 (1975-03-01), Jakobsen et al.
patent: 4465398 (1984-08-01), Knudsen

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