“DIMCUNET” Programa de cálculo para el dimensionamiento de cunetas de recolección de aguas lluvias, en vías urbanas y carreteras

Abstract

The National Roads Institute (INVIAS, for its acronym in Spanish) presented the Road drainage manual, document used as a guide for the design of hydraulic structures related to road infrastructure. It presents and recommends for Colombia the design for ditches with the triangular geometric section for being the most practical, simple to build and for which you need less area. The manual also presents other geometric sections, but without the corresponding design equations for each type of ditch, leaving the sizing of these structures at the discretion of the designers. Some professionals and consulting firms commonly use spreadsheets to perform these calculations. This implies significant work for the use to understand, establish the validity of each programmed cell, verify the relevance and applicability of these calculations, with the motivation of preventing these applications from becoming black box models. Not to mention that aspects such as hypotheses, limitations, restrictions are not appreciable in this type of document. For this reason, it is necessary to implement a software that allows to optimize time and at the same time an application that has the design equations for different forms of cross sections of ditches.