Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory (DMRL) of DRDO was established at Hyderabad in 1963 to meet the needs of complex metals and materials required for modern sophisticated warfare weapons systems.

Address:
Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory (DMRL)
Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO)
Ministry of Defence
Kanchanbagh PO
Hyderabad-500 058
India

Areas of Work

Core Competencies

-Product engineering, production support, and performance analysis of metals, alloys and composite parts

-Process development and surface engineering

-Design and development of specialty alloys intermetallics, ceramics and composites

-Knowledge base in process-structure-property-performance relationships

-Extractive metallurgy of Ti, Mg and rare-earth metals



Areas of Work

The principal areas of research and development are

-Materials for armour applications

-Materials for ammunition applications

-Materials for aerospace applications

-Materials for naval applications

-Functional materials such as advanced magnetic materials

-Emerging materials such as nanomaterials and smart materials

-Advanced materials processing technologies

-Surface engineering

-Advanced metal joining technologies

-Mechanical behaviour of materials especially at high temperatures, high strain rates and at small length

-scales.