Block-formed revetment system for controlling soil erosion

摘要

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.