Siheyuan: The Era of Struggle

Chapter 197 Materials, and more materials! (Subscription required)

"Excuse me, Mr. Guo, is the student who proposed using explosive shock waves instead of turbofans named Yu?"

Yang Ning couldn't help but ask out of curiosity.

"Yes, how did you know?" Mr. Guo looked at Yang Ning curiously and asked.

“Haha~” Yang Ning smiled and said, “We established a graduate student system last year based on the graduate student system of Big Brother. Currently, there are probably only about a hundred or so associate doctoral students.”

"These people are all our key talent training targets. The Chinese Academy of Sciences has set up a special talent archive for this purpose. The archive is currently in the database of the Data Processing Institute."

"Oh~" Mr. Guo suddenly understood after hearing Yang Ning's explanation, and then looked at Mr. Qian and said, "It's a pity that I came back a little late, otherwise I wouldn't have let this student be snatched away by my senior brother."

“This student is very talented in fluid mechanics and thermodynamics, and he showed great enthusiasm after listening to my introduction to the principles of the shock tunnel.”

Then he looked at Mr. Qian and said, "Brother, you said that you would fully support my research. You can't transfer your student away!"

“Haha~” Mr. Qian saw that Mr. Guo was being cautious, so he laughed and said, “Don’t worry, what I said absolutely counts.”

Then he looked at Mr. Guo teasingly and said, "I also have an impression of that student. Since you think so highly of him, how about I transfer the relationship of this student to you?"

"Really?" After hearing Mr. Qian's words, Mr. Qian was no longer sleepy.

He just returned to China and has not been given a specific research project by his superiors. Now he is studying the wind tunnel on the one hand to help his senior brother, and on the other hand we really need such a thing.

"If you say that, then I will take it seriously. Tomorrow I will go to Dean Guo to transfer his relationship to me."

Seeing Mr. Guo's impatient look, Mr. Qian was stunned.

I was just joking, why are you taking it so seriously?

But considering that it was rare for his junior to look at a student in such a different light, he couldn't bear to dampen his enthusiasm, so he could only say helplessly: "You, you haven't changed in all these years."

"Okay, since you think so highly of him, I can only agree. But I have to ask for his opinion first."

Seeing that Mr. Qian agreed, Mr. Guo hurriedly said, "Just don't object, I'll take care of the rest."

"By the way, regarding the research on the shock wave wind tunnel, we still need Yang Ning's cooperation. Tomorrow I will send our design theory and experimental data to the data processing institute. Can you handle it as soon as possible?"

"After all, using explosions instead of fans is very dangerous. In order to obtain early data, we have already had two accidents."

"Is everyone okay?"

Hearing that an accident had occurred on Mr. Guo's side, Mr. Qian asked hurriedly.

The students who followed Mr. Guo to study the wind tunnel were all students taught by Mr. Qian. They were the first batch of talents in the aerospace field that we trained. If there was an accident, it would be a great loss to the future development of our aerospace field. "No one is fine!" Mr. Guo saw the nervous expression and hurriedly explained: "In the previous experiment, we only collected some preliminary data, so the amount of explosive gas used was not large, and it would not pose any threat to people."

"That's good. As long as no one gets hurt, you can handle the rest!" Mr. Qian breathed a sigh of relief, and then reminded Mr. Guo: "If we reach the full-power experiment stage, we must be fully prepared."

After he finished speaking, he seemed a little worried. He turned his head and looked at Yang Ning and said, "When the wind tunnel is conducting the full-power experiment, you should calculate it carefully for them. If something unexpected happens, it could cost lives!"

"Okay!" Yang Ning nodded after hearing Mr. Qian's words.

He later saw on the Internet that Academician Yu and his colleagues had blown up their laboratory in order to develop our hypersonic wind tunnel. You can imagine how dangerous this research was.

In the past, because we were relatively backward in terms of materials, accidents often occurred in Academician Yu’s laboratory due to poor sealing of the shock tube and static electricity generated by the materials.

Then he said to Mr. Guo: "If you need any materials for your experiment, you can come and ask me first. After all, the mixed gas is not an honest master."

"Oh?" Mr. Guo, who had just returned to China, didn't know much about our development in materials science in recent years. So after hearing Yang Ning's words, he looked at him with surprise and asked, "Do we have any materials with good sealing, low magnetism, and good tensile strength?"

Mr. Qian was also looking at Yang Ning curiously at this time. After all, he didn't know much about materials. If we can meet the requirements in terms of materials, then he could optimize it when designing the missile.

After all, if the tensile strength and high temperature resistance of the missile material are better and the weight is lighter, it is not impossible to increase the range of the missile.

Seeing the inquiring eyes of the two, Yang Ning explained to them the properties of all the new materials we have researched.

"It turns out that the urea steel that appeared a few years ago was developed by us. In the United States, they advertised that this special steel was developed by John Bull. I never paid much attention to this information before."

"And the anti-magnetic performance of JY55 (HY80) is so good, why haven't we heard any news about it?"

Hearing Mr. Guo's question, Yang Ning smiled and said vaguely: "That material is our secret, so it has not been disclosed to the outside world."

Although neither Mr. Guo nor Mr. Qian were in the field of material research, they could guess where these materials would be most suitable for use based on their properties. So after hearing what Yang Ning said, they both nodded in understanding.

Before, they didn’t ask where these materials were used, but now that we have these materials, they started to think about which materials can be used in their research projects.

The rest is up to Yang Ning. If they think their project needs any material, they can just apply directly to the higher authorities.

"Do we have any better aircraft skin material?"

Mr. Qian thought for a while and asked, the missile body material is actually the same material as the aircraft skin. Currently, our best aircraft skin technology is the MiG-19 skin technology provided by our big brother, which can barely meet the requirements of missiles with a range of thousands of kilometers.

However, if you want the missile to have a longer range and a faster speed, that material will not meet the requirements.

(End of this chapter)