Gabions are increasingly used, thanks to its versatile design possibilities for architects and planners as a cheaper alternative to precast products and solid walls made of concrete or stones. The application area includes landscaping and road construction, noise barriers, protective structures and trenches. For a structural engineer FIDES-Gabion offers a tool that graphically-interactively leads the required structural analysis which is required for the calculation of retaining structures of gabions or solid blocks in the German Standard and Eurocodes. The calculation covers the evidence for tilting and sliding in the gaps, for inserted geotextiles, for the external stability as well as tilting, sliding and bearing failure in the base plane.
By the earth pressure calculation used by Culmann also complex soil layers and concentrated loads can be correctly identified. For external stability a multi-body fracture method (KEA: Kinematic Element Analysis) is used.