The Director CSIR-Structural Engineering Research Centre (Council of Scientific & Industrial Research) CSIR Campus, CSIR Road, Taramani, Chennai - 600 113, INDIA Ph.: 91-44- 22549201; Fax: 91-44-22541508 Email: director@serc.res.in, Website: http://www.serc.res.in CSIR-Structural Engineering Research Centre Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/csirserc (CSIR-SERC), Chennai Multi-purpose Cyclone Shelter Contributions of CSIR-SERC for societal intervention continuing…. Cyclone shelters are major infrastructural facility for marooned people during occurrence of cyclone events Providing Expert Advice to Technical Advisory Committee for The Indian and German Red Cross Society approached CSIR-SERC, Construction of Multi-Purpose Cyclone Shelters in West Bengal and Chennai, to provide an appropriate structural design solution for Kerala under Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund (PMNRF) the cyclone shelters through NDMA A Multi-purpose cyclone shelter was designed by CSIR-SERC Proposal for a new BIS code under Cyclone Resistant Structures A total of 23 cyclone shelters built along the coast of Odisha are Sectional Committee, CED 57 based on the design given by CSIR-SERC. Each of them saved nearly 2,000 people during the Super Cyclone which hit Orissa in the year 1999 75 such cyclone shelters provided protection to about 1.0 Lakh people during cyclone phailin in the year 2013
The innovativeness of the structural design includes:
(i) Selection of suitable aerodynamic shape to effectively resist Cyclone Shelter designed by CSIR-SERC for German Red Cross Society cyclonic wind forces (ii) Provision of stilt, and sloping ground to satisfy functional requirements against storm surges (iii) Selection of appropriate design wind speed based on risk analysis of cyclonic wind speeds carried out at CSIR-SERC (iv) Special foundations and engineering specifications for construction
Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel (BLWT) experiments under Simulated
Normal and Cyclonic Wind Characteristics
Major Requirements: (1) To introduce low frequency component in the longitudinal wind spectra Geometrically scaled model of cyclone shelter inside BLWT
