11 Bozhenko St., 03680, Kyiv, Ukraine

Phone: (044) 287 6779; fax: (044) 528 0486;
e-mail: office@paton.kiev.ua;
http://www.paton.kiev.ua

The Institute does research into:

– advanced technologies of welding and joining of materials;

– strength, reliability and fatigue life of welded structures;

– technologies of surfacing, coating and surface engineering;

– special electrometallurgy processes;

– advanced structural and functional materials;

– technical diagnostics and non-destructive testing;

– automation of welding processes and allied technologies.

The following science school works at the Institute:

– integrated research into the nature of materials joining, strength of welded structures, producing and studying new functional and structural materials. School founder was E. O. Paton. At present his successor and school leader is NAS academician B. E. Paton.

The list of developments offered for cooperative commercialization:

– a set of electrosurgical tools, instrumentation and software to control welding of soft biological tissues;

– a technology and equipment for flash-butt welding of high-strength and corrosion-resistant steel pipes and large-cross-section parts made of aluminium-lithium alloys;

– a technology and equipment for flash-butt welding of railway frogs and high-strength rails;

– a technology and equipment for electron beam welding of thick aluminuim alloys (up to 100 mm thick);

– computerized technologies and equipment for non-destructive testing of critical structures, using ultrasonic, magnetic, X-ray and eddy-current control techniques;

– a technology of electron beam evaporation and vacuum condensation of hard graded protective coatings based on titanium, chromium and boron carbides, which allows to reliably synthesize carbide compounds of specified compositions with the formation of hard graded coatings. This technology produces advanced metal, metal-ceramic and ceramic materials in the form of functional or structural coatings on the surface of various products, as well as in the form of foil, plates (sheet) or some structures in a broad range of thicknesses: from 1-2 micrometers up to 5 -10 mm;

– an instrument for measuring residual stresses, employing holographic interferometry, which permits fast studies of the stressed state of structures made of different structural materials;

– a technology for obtaining high-quality ingots of titanium and its alloys, using less expensive initial raw materials (sponge titanium-TG-1300) and wastes by the method of electron beam melting with an intermediate crucible (EBMIC);

– a technology for producing bimetal reinforcement steel for critical concrete structures, overpasses in particular; it ensures a 5-time increase in the period of fault-free operation;

– the A-TIG technology of welding various materials (nickel alloys, high-strength steels etc.), employing single– and multicomponent activators (oxide, salt, salt-oxide);

– an automated system to control the technological process of single-crystal growing by plasma-induction zone melting;

– a technology to produce composite coatings, using spherical powders of superhard refractory compounds (relits) with 50 to 100 hm particle size;

– flux-cored wires for surfacing, which provide phosphorus-alloyed deposited metal for reconditioning and strengthening of friction pairs;

– means and equipment for high-productivity ultrasonic testing of extended structures in operation;

– a computerized system for determining the dimensions of discontinuities in welded joints of critical structures by methods of synthesized focusing aperture (SAFT method); this allows highly accurate localization of defects and determination of their form;

– hardware and basic software for diagnostics of welded structures, including spherical tanks, based on acoustic emission method.