DRDO develops high strength titanium alloy for aerospace forgings

DMRL develops special steels and other super-alloys (such as those mixed with nickel) and then facilitates their commercial production by industrial units

The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has announced the indigenous development of a “high strength metastable beta titanium alloy” on Tuesday. This will be produced on an industrial scale for making aerospace structural forgings.

The alloy has been developed by the Hyderabad-based Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory (DMRL), one of the DRDO’s premier laboratories that carries out fundamental research in the field of materials science and technology. DMRL’s specified role is to develop and productionise metals, alloys, ceramics and their composites for advanced uses, such as in aircraft engines and aerostructures.

DMRL has announced that the new alloy, in which titanium is