Associated drainage structures

Ricardo Alonso Perlado
Ingeniero Técnico de Obras Públicas
Projects Department Esteyco, SA

ABSTRACT
This article presents a review of the drainage systems associated to structures normally found on the roads is done. Not being particularly complicated in design, often play a secondary role in the initial conception of those not seek attention until the first pathologies are detected by malfunction. The exhibition has differentiated drainage overpasses and viaducts (analyzing its affection on each of the elements that constitute them), underpasses and walls. The article has tried to present several graphic examples of diseases associated with defects in the drainage structures associated with the conviction that, in this field, "a picture is better than a thousand words".

Keywords
Drainage board, running boards, batteries, underpasses, walls.