Flood Rescue and Relief Vehicle

Relief Vehicle Design

Introduction

Floods are annual natural calamities in India. Each year thousands of people become homeless and hundreds of people dies because of it. There are eleven such states in India which faces floods every year. Apart from this, due to constant climatic and geographical changes there are new states like Jammu and Kashmir and Uttarakhand which got badly affected in floods in the last few years.

This project aims at strengthening rescue and relief operations in India by providing an opportunity for new product development, catering human needs at vital conditions.

Case Study - Slide Show

Design process that was followed in this project:

• Literature study: Floods In India
   - Flood Prone zones
   - Flood types
   - Flood sources

• Literature Study: Flood Response System In India
   - Study of Flood Rescue System (NDMA)

• Field Visit
   - Field Study to NDRF

• Research Conclusion
   - Project Hypothesis
   - Design Brief
- Urban Scenario Challenges
- Victim Centric Challenges

• Existing Rescue Vehicles
   - Parallel Product Study
   - Proportion Study

• Ieation
   - Ideation Process
   - Idea Shortlisting
    - Product Usage Illustration and Mock Modelling
   - Idea to Concepts

• Concept
   - Concept 1
   - Concept 2

• User Evaluation
   - Concept Evaluation

• Final Concept Development
   - Concept Shortlisting
   - Concept Shortcomings
   - NDRF desirables
   - Concept Development
   - Form Development
   - Form Shortlisting
   - Final Design Storyboarding
   - Final Design CAID
   - Final Design Exploded View
   - Final Design Overall Dimensions
   - Final Design Boat weight & Mass
   - Final Design Stack ability
   - Final Design Features
   - Final Design Collage
   - Final design Modelling
   - Final Design Model

• Reference

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Contact Details

This project was done by Tonmoy Phukan, M. Des. student of IDC, IIT Bombay during the third semester as a design project.

You could write to the following address regarding suggestions and clarifications:

Helpdesk Details:
Co-ordinator
Project e-kalpa
Industrial Design Centre
IIT Bombay
Powai
Mumbai 4000 076
India

Phone: 091-22-2576 7820/ 7801/ 7802
Fax: 091-22-25767803
Email: contact[at]dsource.in

Credits

Participants:

M. Des. Student in Mobility and Vehicle Design: Tonmoy Phukan
IDC, IIT Bombay

Faculty Mentor: Professor Nishant Sharma
IDC, IIT Bombay

Website Design: Professor Ravi Poovaiah

Website Layout: Sachin B. Sonawane
Web Content Editing: Sanmati Hosure
Website Programming: Roopa N. Sahoo, Mandar Joshi, Vaibhav Shah,Yogesh Masaye