CN212612287U - Interlocking building block and ecological slope protection - Google Patents

Interlocking building block and ecological slope protection Download PDF

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CN212612287U
CN212612287U CN202020621776.6U CN202020621776U CN212612287U CN 212612287 U CN212612287 U CN 212612287U CN 202020621776 U CN202020621776 U CN 202020621776U CN 212612287 U CN212612287 U CN 212612287U
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马慧
王伟
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The application discloses interlocking formula building block and ecological bank protection. The interlocking block comprises a block body with a cross section of a regular polygon, wherein: the building block body is a cylindrical structure which is perpendicular to the slope surface of the slope protection, an accommodating through hole which penetrates through the building block body is formed in the middle of the building block body along the length direction of the building block body, and an auxiliary through hole which penetrates through the building block body is formed in the edge of the building block body along the length direction of the building block body; the outer walls of the building block body are respectively provided with a limiting boss or a limiting groove matched with the limiting boss, one outer wall of the building block body is provided with the limiting boss, and the other adjacent outer wall is provided with the limiting groove. The ecological slope protection structure is complicated, the cost is high, easily cause the technical problem of pollution to the environment has been solved in this application.

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Interlocking building block and ecological slope protection
Technical Field
The application relates to the field of hydraulic engineering construction, in particular to an interlocking type building block and an ecological slope protection.
Background
In the hydraulic engineering construction process, it is necessary that the ecological slope protection construction level is effectively improved, and related technical personnel should effectively analyze the ecological slope protection design principle and scientifically master the problems in river regulation, so that efficient technical measures can be pertinently taken to ensure that related work is smoothly developed.
In the traditional scheme of river course management, the important observation of paying attention to water pollution, in actual ecological bank protection construction process, can adopt auxiliary material such as antifreeze, inflation agent, but auxiliary material's addition may bring the survival threat to surrounding environment and biology, increases the condition of worsening of quality of water, causes the influence to the surrounding environment, if can not control the content of additive will increase the peripheral destroyed condition in river course, destroys the embankment ecosystem. Under general conditions, concrete, masonry stone and the like can be selected as raw materials to protect the slope, the effect of stabilizing the bank can be realized, the ecological environment at the slope protection is affected, the vegetation survival rate is greatly reduced, the water purification efficiency can be realized to a certain degree, the water body is caused to lose ecological balance, and the survival of wild animals and plants is threatened.
At present, the ecological slope protection technique commonly used in the water conservancy work progress in the market has: artificial grass planting slope protection, honeycomb type grid grass planting slope protection, vegetation matrix plant slope protection, hydraulic pressure spray seeding grass planting slope protection and vegetation bag slope protection. But all have respective drawbacks and disadvantages:
firstly, because the grass seeds are not uniformly sown, the grass seeds are easily washed away by rainwater, the survival rate of grass planting is low and the like, the artificial grass planting slope protection often cannot achieve the satisfactory slope protection effect, slope surface gully, surface soil loss and other slope diseases are caused, a large amount of slope disease treatment and repair engineering is caused, and the technology is less applied in recent years.
Second, honeycomb type grid grass planting slope protection cost is higher, is higher than the grout rubble skeleton slope protection, is used for filling the protection of side slope more, and because be kept apart by concrete frame fragment of brick between grass and the grass, the effect is not very good in the aspect of holistic solid soil effect and adds the medicament and mix inhomogeneous not very much
Thirdly, the construction technology of the plant growth substrate plant slope protection is relatively difficult, the engineering quantity is large, the thickness of the sprayed substrate material is small, the sprayed substrate material is easy to collapse the shell and fall off after being exposed to the sun, the thickness of the sprayed substrate material is thick, the weight is too large, the hanging net is easy to fall off, the engineering cost is high, and the investment is large.
And fourthly, the hydraulic spray-seeding grass planting slope has low soil and water fixing and retaining capacity, a runoff ditch and erosion are easy to form, a constructor is easy to steal labor, reduce materials and fake, a surface phenomenon is formed, and water and soil loss or ditch flushing is easy to cause in the later period due to improper variety selection and insufficient mixed materials.
And fifthly, the plant growing bag slope protection needs to be used in a large area, the manufacturing cost is high, the plant grows slowly, the greening effect can be realized as soon as possible by matching with a grass seed spray-seeding technology, and the implementation is difficult.
Aiming at the problems of complex structure, high cost and easy pollution to the environment of the ecological slope protection in the related technology, no effective solution is provided at present.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
The utility model provides a main aim at provides an interlocking formula building block and ecological bank protection to solve ecological bank protection structure complicacy, cost height, easily cause the problem of pollution to the environment.
In order to achieve the above object, the present application provides an interlocking block.
An interlocking block according to the present application comprises a block body having a cross-section that is a regular polygon, wherein:
the building block body is of a cylindrical structure which is perpendicular to the slope surface of the slope protection, an accommodating through hole which penetrates through the building block body is formed in the middle of the building block body along the length direction of the building block body, and an auxiliary through hole which penetrates through the building block body is formed in the edge of the building block body along the length direction of the building block body;
the building block comprises a building block body and is characterized in that each outer wall of the building block body is respectively provided with a limiting boss or a limiting groove matched with the limiting boss, one outer wall of the building block body is provided with the limiting boss, and the other adjacent outer wall is provided with the limiting groove.
Furthermore, the building block body is provided with at least one water storage blind hole along the length direction of the building block body, the water storage blind hole is communicated with the top surface of the building block body, and a water delivery channel is arranged between the inner wall of the bottom of the water storage blind hole and the accommodating through hole.
Furthermore, the water storage blind hole is positioned outside the accommodating through hole, the water delivery channel is arranged along the horizontal direction, one end of the water delivery channel is communicated with the water storage blind hole, and the other end of the water delivery channel is communicated with the accommodating through hole.
Furthermore, the number of the auxiliary through holes is multiple, and the auxiliary through holes are uniformly distributed around the accommodating through hole.
Furthermore, each auxiliary through hole is respectively positioned in the middle of each edge of the building block body.
Furthermore, the limiting boss and the limiting groove are both long strip-shaped structures arranged along the length direction of the building block body, and the size and the shape of the limiting boss and the size and the shape of the limiting groove are the same.
Furthermore, the cross sections of the limiting lug bosses and the limiting grooves are trapezoidal.
Furthermore, the limiting lug boss and the limiting groove are both positioned in the middle of the corresponding outer wall of the building block body.
Furthermore, the cross sections of the building block body and the accommodating through hole are regular hexagons.
In order to realize the above-mentioned purpose, this application provides an ecological bank protection.
According to the application, ecological bank protection includes a plurality of foretell interlocking block, each interlocking block all sets up along the domatic mutually perpendicular direction with the bank protection, adjacent two the outer wall of interlocking block laminates mutually, and one spacing boss on the interlocking block outer wall imbeds in another spacing recess on the interlocking block outer wall.
In this application embodiment, the holding through-hole that runs through block body is seted up to the length direction along block body on block body, lay each block body along the domatic looks vertically direction with the bank protection, not only be convenient for construction, it is easy to mat formation, can prevent effectively that bank slope from scouring and eroding, and moisture can be retained to the holding through-hole, reduce moisture loss rate, prevent soil erosion and water loss, the supplementary through-hole that runs through block body is seted up along block body's length direction at block body's edge, not only can reduce block body's weight, intensity of labour when lightening constructor lays block body, and can provide the position of ideal for the growth and development of plant, the full play river, the self-purification ability of soil and vegetation. In addition, be provided with spacing boss or with spacing boss matched with spacing recess on each outer wall of block body respectively, be provided with spacing boss on a block body outer wall, then be provided with spacing recess on another adjacent outer wall, when laying block body, improve the stability of connecting between the adjacent block body, strengthen the stability of side slope, the work progress need not to reform transform the side slope on a large scale, can remain original natural form, the purpose of not destroying natural environment has been reached, thereby realized that the construction cost is low, simple structure's ecological bank protection's technological effect, and then solved ecological bank protection structure complicacy, the cost is high, easily cause the technical problem of pollution to the environment.
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The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this application, serve to provide a further understanding of the application and to enable other features, objects, and advantages of the application to be more apparent. The drawings and their description illustrate the embodiments of the invention and do not limit it. In the drawings:
FIG. 1 is a top view of the interlocking block of the present invention;
fig. 2 is a front view of the interlocking block of the present invention;
fig. 3 is the utility model discloses the connection structure schematic diagram of ecological bank protection.
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In order to make the technical solutions better understood by those skilled in the art, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only partial embodiments of the present application, but not all embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present application.
It should be noted that the terms "first," "second," and the like in the description and claims of this application and in the drawings described above are used for distinguishing between similar elements and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It should be understood that the data so used may be interchanged under appropriate circumstances such that embodiments of the application described herein may be used. Furthermore, the terms "comprises," "comprising," and "having," and any variations thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, system, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of steps or elements is not necessarily limited to those steps or elements expressly listed, but may include other steps or elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus.
In this application, the terms "upper", "lower", "left", "right", "front", "rear", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", "middle", "vertical", "horizontal", "lateral", "longitudinal", and the like indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings. These terms are used primarily to better describe the invention and its embodiments, and are not intended to limit the indicated devices, elements or components to a particular orientation or to be constructed and operated in a particular orientation.
Moreover, some of the above terms may be used to indicate other meanings besides the orientation or positional relationship, for example, the term "on" may also be used to indicate some kind of attachment or connection relationship in some cases. The specific meaning of these terms in the present invention can be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art as appropriate.
Furthermore, the terms "mounted," "disposed," "provided," "connected," and "sleeved" are to be construed broadly. For example, it may be a fixed connection, a removable connection, or a unitary construction; can be a mechanical connection, or an electrical connection; may be directly connected, or indirectly connected through intervening media, or may be in internal communication between two devices, elements or components. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present invention can be understood according to specific situations by those skilled in the art.
It should be noted that the embodiments and features of the embodiments in the present application may be combined with each other without conflict. The present application will be described in detail below with reference to the embodiments with reference to the attached drawings.
Example one
As shown in fig. 1, 2, the present application relates to an interlocking block comprising a block body 1 having a polygonal cross-section, wherein: the building block body 1 is a cylindrical structure which is perpendicular to the slope surface of the slope protection, an accommodating through hole 101 which penetrates through the building block body 1 is formed in the middle of the building block body 1 along the length direction of the building block body 1, and an auxiliary through hole 102 which penetrates through the building block body 1 is formed in the edge of the building block body 1 along the length direction of the building block body 1; each outer wall of the block body 1 is respectively provided with a limit boss 105 or a limit groove 106 matched with the limit boss 105, one outer wall of the block body 1 is provided with the limit boss 105, and the other adjacent outer wall of the block body 1 is provided with the limit groove 106.
The utility model discloses set up the holding through-hole 101 that runs through block body 1 along block body 1's length direction on block body 1, lay each block body 1 along the domatic looks vertically direction with the bank protection, not only be convenient for construction, it is easy to mat formation, can prevent effectively that the bank slope from scouring and eroding, and moisture can be retained to holding through-hole 101, reduce moisture loss rate, prevent soil erosion and water loss, set up the supplementary through-hole 102 that runs through block body along block body 1's length direction at block body 1's edge, not only can reduce block body 1's weight, intensity of labour when lightening constructor lays block body 1, and can provide the position of ideal for the growth of plant, the full play river, the self-purification ability of soil and vegetation. In addition, be provided with spacing boss 105 on each outer wall of block body 1 respectively or with spacing boss 105 matched with spacing recess 106, be provided with spacing boss 105 on 1 outer wall of block body, then be provided with spacing recess 106 on adjacent another outer wall, when laying block body 1, improve the stability of connecting between the adjacent block body 1, strengthen the stability of side slope, the work progress need not to reform transform the side slope on a large scale, can remain original natural form, thereby realized that the construction cost is low, simple structure's ecological bank protection's technological effect.
Further, as shown in fig. 1, the number of the auxiliary through holes 102 is multiple, the auxiliary through holes 102 are uniformly arranged around the accommodating through hole 101, and the auxiliary through holes 102 are respectively located at the middle position of each edge of the block body 1.
Further, as shown in fig. 2, the limiting boss 105 and the limiting groove 106 are both long strip-shaped structures arranged along the length direction of the block body 1, and the size and the shape of the limiting boss 105 and the limiting groove 106 are the same.
Further, the cross-section of the limit projection 105 and the limit groove 106 may be, but not limited to, trapezoidal.
Further, as shown in fig. 2, the limiting boss 105 and the limiting groove 106 are both located at the middle position on the corresponding outer wall of the block body 1.
In an optional embodiment of the utility model, as shown in fig. 1, at least one water storage blind hole 103 is opened along the length direction of the block body 1 on the block body 1, the water storage blind hole 103 is a hole-shaped structure with an open top and a sealed bottom, the top of the water storage blind hole 103 is communicated with the top surface of the block body 1, and a water delivery channel 104 is arranged between the inner wall of the bottom of the water storage blind hole 103 and the accommodating through hole 101. A certain amount of rainwater or irrigation water can be stored in the water storage blind hole 103, and when the water content of the soil in the accommodating through hole 101 is reduced, the water in the water storage blind hole 103 automatically flows into the accommodating through hole 101, so that sufficient water in the accommodating through hole 101 is ensured, and the effect of continuously supplying water for vegetation growing in the accommodating through hole 101 is achieved.
Further, as shown in fig. 1, the water storage blind hole 103 is located outside the accommodating through hole 101, the water delivery channel 104 is arranged along the horizontal direction, one end of the water delivery channel 104 is communicated with the water storage blind hole 103, and the other end of the water delivery channel 104 is communicated with the accommodating through hole 101.
Further, as shown in fig. 1, the cross sections of the block body 1 and the receiving through hole 101 are regular hexagons.
Further, the block body 1 may be made of, but not limited to, concrete.
In addition, in the process of transporting, loading and unloading the interlocking blocks, the action of a carrier is required to be lightly handled, and the block body 1 is required to be placed in the vertical direction during transporting and loading, so that the damage to the interlocking blocks is reduced to the maximum extent. When unloading, the carrier places the interlocking blocks in a flat position and stacking of a plurality of interlocking blocks must ensure a height of less than 1 meter. When the interlocking type building block is laid, a constructor can convey the interlocking type building block in a mode of sliding on a wood board, and conveying and laying efficiency is improved. The laying range and position of the interlocking blocks should be adjusted according to the actual condition of the river bank.
The utility model discloses an interlocking type building block's characteristics and advantage are:
the interlocking building block is convenient to construct and easy to pave, can effectively prevent the bank slope from scouring and eroding, can reserve moisture in the accommodating through hole 101, reduces the moisture loss rate, prevents water and soil loss, assists the setting of the through hole 102, can reduce the weight of the building block body 1, reduces the labor intensity when the building block body 1 is laid by constructors, can provide an ideal position for the growth and development of plants, and fully develops the self-purification capacity of rivers, soil and vegetation.
When the interlocking building block is laid, the stability of connection between the adjacent building block bodies 1 can be improved through the matching of the limiting bosses 105 and the limiting grooves 106, the stability of the side slope is enhanced, the construction process does not need to transform the side slope on a large scale, and the original natural form can be reserved.
Store rainwater or irrigation water in the water blind hole 103 of this interlocking formula building block, when the soil water content in holding through-hole 101 reduced, in the automatic holding through-hole 101 that flows in of water in the water blind hole 103, the moisture was sufficient in the assurance holding through-hole 101, played the vegetation that grows in the holding through-hole 101 and lasted the effect that supplies water.
Example two
As shown in fig. 3, the present application relates to an ecological slope protection, which includes a plurality of the above-mentioned interlocking blocks, each of the interlocking blocks is arranged along a direction perpendicular to the slope surface of the slope protection, the outer walls of two adjacent interlocking blocks are attached to each other, and a limit boss 105 on the outer wall of one interlocking block is embedded into a limit groove 106 on the outer wall of the other interlocking block.
The utility model discloses an ecological bank protection's characteristics and advantage are:
the utility model provides a, adopt a plurality of cross sections to lay for the interlocking formula building block that regular hexagon's concrete material made in this ecological bank protection and form, the outside of every interlocking formula building block all is connected with the cooperation of six adjacent interlocking formula building blocks through spacing boss 105 and corresponding spacing recess 106, form the interlocking form, connect steadily to fix, better wholeness has, on the water current scouring resistance problem, this kind of ecological bank protection is more firm, there is stronger resistant towards nature, each interlocking formula building block requires that specification and dimension is unanimous, be provided with holding through-hole 101 and supplementary through-hole 102 on the interlocking formula building block, not only help reducing soil erosion and water loss, and vegetation such as grass planting can be planted, play and beautify the environment effect.
Two, this ecological bank protection is laid conveniently, compares the construction with traditional bank protection more convenient, can effectively subtract short construction period, reduces constructor, reduces the operating expenses, has lower total payout rate of engineering, effectively improves the efficiency of construction.
Three, this ecological bank protection can be to a certain extent the moisture of reserving, provide the water source for the vegetation, be favorable to the growth of vegetation, easily form ecosystem at the side slope, resume the river bank environment, let the vegetation, microorganism and aquatic life can survive, help the purification of water, can plant flowers and plants in order to form the barrier on this ecological bank protection in addition, help keeping water and soil, directly flow into the river course to rubbish and harmful substance and play isolated effect, plant the plant that has the purification efficiency, can also promote the self-purification ability of river.
The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present application and is not intended to limit the present application, and various modifications and changes may be made by those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement and the like made within the spirit and principle of the present application shall be included in the protection scope of the present application.

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1. An interlocking block, characterized in that it comprises a block body (1) with a cross section of regular polygon, wherein:
the building block body (1) is of a cylindrical structure which is perpendicular to the slope surface of a slope protection, an accommodating through hole (101) which penetrates through the building block body (1) is formed in the middle of the building block body (1) along the length direction of the building block body (1), and an auxiliary through hole (102) which penetrates through the building block body (1) is formed in the edge of the building block body (1) along the length direction of the building block body (1);
each outer wall of the building block body (1) is respectively provided with a limiting boss (105) or a limiting groove (106) matched with the limiting boss (105), one outer wall of the building block body (1) is provided with the limiting boss (105), and the other adjacent outer wall is provided with the limiting groove (106).
2. The interlocking block as claimed in claim 1, wherein the block body (1) is provided with at least one water storage blind hole (103) along the length direction of the block body (1), the water storage blind hole (103) is communicated with the top surface of the block body (1), and a water delivery channel (104) is arranged between the inner wall of the bottom of the water storage blind hole (103) and the accommodating through hole (101).
3. The interlocking block as recited in claim 2, wherein the water storing blind hole (103) is located outside the receiving through hole (101), the water delivery passage (104) is arranged in a horizontal direction, one end of the water delivery passage (104) is communicated with the water storing blind hole (103), and the other end of the water delivery passage (104) is communicated with the receiving through hole (101).
4. The interlocking block according to claim 1, wherein the number of the auxiliary through holes (102) is plural, and each auxiliary through hole (102) is uniformly arranged around the receiving through hole (101).
5. The interlocking block according to claim 4, wherein each of the auxiliary through holes (102) is located at a middle position of each edge of the block body (1).
6. The interlocking block of claim 1, wherein the stop boss (105) and the stop recess (106) are both elongated structures disposed along the length of the block body (1), and the stop boss (105) and the stop recess (106) are the same size and shape.
7. The interlocking block according to claim 6, wherein the limiting projection (105) and the limiting groove (106) are trapezoidal in cross section.
8. The interlocking block according to claim 1, wherein the stop boss (105) and the stop groove (106) are both located at a central position on the corresponding outer wall of the block body (1).
9. The interlocking block according to claim 1, wherein the block body (1) and the receiving through hole (101) are both regular hexagonal in cross section.
10. An ecological slope protection, characterized in that, the ecological slope protection includes a plurality of interlocking blocks of any one of claims 1 to 9, each interlocking block is arranged along the direction perpendicular to the sloping surface of the slope protection, the outer walls of two adjacent interlocking blocks are attached, and the limit boss (105) on the outer wall of one interlocking block is embedded into the limit groove (106) on the outer wall of the other interlocking block.
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