Wire Mesh Drapery

Wire Mesh Drapery is generally defined as double twisted wire mesh draped over a slope area and anchored with soil or rock anchors.   Wire mesh is used where rocks are generally less than 2 feet in diameter and used to prevent rocks from reaching travel ways or other protected areas or property.

The wire mesh drapery system is applied to slopes which exhibit potential for rockfall, the double twist wire mesh system allows for rockfall to occur but in a controlled manor.  The drapery is applied to the slope and rockfall is controlled by the wire mesh preventing freefall and bouncing of the rocks on the slope, thereby preventing uncontrolled rockfall into protected areas.

This consists of panels of double twisted hexagonal Wire mesh draped over a rock slope. The system is anchored at the top and attached to a Wire rope cable support grid. Each panel is attached to the next with wire fasteners forming one large blanket on the slope. This system is generally designed to control rockfalls by providing resistance to the moving rock by having enough flexibility to allow the rock to slowly trickle its way down the slope and fall harmlessly into a ditch area.