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Welding Research Institute

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited

Tiruchirappalli- 620014

Tamil Nadu, India

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Contact us : + 91 431 2577207/8044

Email: wri@bhel.in/wriconsult@bhel.in

Current Research Pursuits

Need based applied research in the field of joining of materials for meeting the needs of industrial applications.

Welding Automation & Robotisation

  • Valve components

  • Pipe to branch tubes

  • Rotor assemblies

  • Two wheeler frames

  • Transformer tanks

  • Tube to tube

  • Orbital Welding Technology

  • Narrow gap welding Technology

App

Robotic Laser Hybrid welding

  • Capacitor Box

  • Long seam welds of tubes and pipes

Magnetically Impelled Arc Butt welding

  • Tube to tube butt joints for automotive sectors

  • Tubular structures

App

Orbital GTA welding for pipes

  • Cross country pipe lines

  • Power piping

  • Water pipe lines

Deformation resistance welding

  • Automotive Fuel tanks

  • Complex shaped thin sheets

App

Friction Stir Welding & Surfacing

  • Aluminium and its alloys

  • Streillite Hardfacing

Robotic Tandem MIG Welding

  • Automotive wheels

  • Thick walled sections

App

Fatigue studies

  • Fatigue life assessment

  • Incipient damage assessment

Laser Applications

  • Air hardening of steel components

  • Laser cladding of components

App

Weldability of materials

  • Tungsten bearing Cr – Mo Steels

  • Copper bearing SS

  • Nickel based super alloys

  • Ti alloys

  • Al, Mg alloys

  • Armor Steels

Welding Engineering and RLA

  • Weld design optimization

  • Component life evaluation