Traveling Back to the 1960s: The Entire Internet Teaches Me How to Build Missiles

Chapter 79 Only those with exceptional skills deserve to come to the Golden and Silver Beach

It could trigger a secondary explosion of conventional explosives!

Upon hearing this, everyone present was on edge, and they were especially worried for Lu Guangda on the Lanzhou-Xinjiang Railway.

Li Difeng asked, "Wouldn't Dean Lu and the others be in great danger, like being in a train with a ticking time bomb?"

He Chenggong said, "Don't worry, the dean and his accompanying technical staff have taken emergency measures, which should be able to mitigate the impact of the low-frequency vibration. However, he believes that the measures are not the best and can only be considered a stopgap measure. He hopes that our team can find a more reliable way to completely avoid the low-frequency vibration problem before we set off."

This made everyone uneasy and somewhat troubled.

Given the current industrial conditions, the shock absorption of trains transporting atomic bombs has already reached its limit, even exceeding the specifications of high-end special trains. How can it be further optimized?

Zhou Yunxiao crossed his arms and stared at the simple drawing on the blackboard, pondering the problem while asking netizens for suggestions.

Upon hearing that there was something to do, the viewers in the trans-dimensional live stream quickly rolled up their sleeves and eagerly joined in, vying to speak up:

[Logistics expert here! When transporting precision instruments, an air suspension system is a must, preferably one with electronically controlled air suspension, featuring airbags and pneumatic shock absorbers. I guarantee that Ms. Qiu will be more stable inside than in a Rolls-Royce!]

[The air suspension mentioned above is too complicated. Wouldn't it be better to just use a semi-automatic magnetorheological damper like those used on high-speed trains? This thing, combined with a gyroscope, adjusts the damping force in real time, ensuring absolute safety!]

Forget mechanical structures, let's go straight to materials science! Use non-Newtonian fluids, or get a few barrels of high-density polyurethane damping material, and seal the detonation lens and its enclosure directly inside. Low-frequency vibrations will all be gone!

Zhou Yunxiao listened to everyone, but none of them hit the nail on the head.

He replied helplessly, "Gentlemen, wake up! Quickly put away your supernatural powers!"

"Don't forget, this is Dongguo in 1961, not 2026. Forget about electronically controlled air suspension or magnetorheological dampers, we can't even come up with a decent microcontroller or sensor right now. Isn't it just wishful thinking to try and do these things?"

"As for non-Newtonian fluids and high-density polyurethane foam—current chemical plants can only synthesize simple inorganic acids and alkalis at best; where would they get such polymer materials?"

"Could you suggest a more reliable method?"

This question left netizens speechless, and they stopped trying to steal the spotlight. The live chat fell silent for a moment.

Zhou Yunxiao rubbed his face, looking at He Chenggong, Li Difeng, the technical backbone of the Second Division, and comrades from various departments at the Jinyintan Base, including the metallurgy group, lathe group, materials group, tolerance group, and process group, who were all equally worried. He encouraged the netizens again, saying, "Now I'm going out for a walk. Forget about these modern sensors and codes, and purely from the perspective of classical physics and mechanics, see if we can make a damping base that absorbs low-frequency vibrations using the existing materials at the Jinyintan Base. There's strength in numbers, surely one of us can come up with a good idea, right? Don't be discouraged—"

After saying that, he stood up and suggested to He Chenggong that they go out for a walk.

Li Difeng and the others also had this idea. Anyway, a solution can't be waited for, and there's no point in just sitting around.

Everyone left the office building and wandered around the various workshops, trying to find some inspiration.

After going around in circles, He Chenggong gathered everyone together again and asked if they had any new ideas.

Li Difeng shook his head, and the technical backbone of the second division shrugged. These base backbones from the metallurgy group, lathe group, and materials group also spread their hands helplessly.

Just as He Chenggong was sighing and preparing to report the situation to Dean Lu and discuss contingency plans, a voice suddenly rang out from the crowd, "If we want to reduce or even eliminate the impact of low-frequency vibrations of trains on long-distance transportation, especially the impact on the lens of atomic bomb detonation, I think we can design a set of steel wire rope vibration isolators —"

He Chenggong immediately looked up happily and followed the sound, only to see a young technician next to Li Difeng speaking.

He eagerly pressed on, "Are you serious? Then how do we make this wire rope vibration isolator? Can we make it?"

Zhou Yunxiao glanced at the comments from netizens and nodded, "It can be done, but the shock absorption effect still needs to be tested in the field to know. I can't guarantee it here."

"Good, good, that's a good idea!"

He Chenggong didn't care about arguing anymore. "It's better to try anything than to sit idly by and do nothing. Let's give it a shot. Comrade Xiao Zhou, from now on, all the key personnel in the metallurgy group, lathe group, materials group, tolerance group, and process group will be under your command. Let's get this vibration isolator up and running!"

Zhou Yunxiao hummed in agreement and, without any formalities, immediately assigned tasks to the group leaders.

The vibration reduction solution he proposed is actually a simple, purely mechanical suspended vibration reduction base composed of steel wire rope vibration isolators combined with multi-layered composite damping platforms.

On the open ground of the Jinyintan base, there is a test carriage that is exactly the same as the transport train. It has been used countless times for the transport of atomic bombs and is now being put to use again.

Zhou Yunxiao had several scrapped trucks brought in, and the leaf springs were removed from them and welded in a grid pattern onto the chassis of the truck bed, serving as the first layer of base to absorb low-frequency vibrations.

Next, he asked He Chenggong to coordinate several thick vulcanized rubber pads from the warehouse, cut them into small pieces, and sandwich them between the steel plates to form a middle layer of damping.

Li Difeng and the technicians from the second division watched from the sidelines, initially not noticing anything amiss, but when they saw Zhou Yunxiao do the third thing, their expressions became serious.

Zhou Yunxiao was seen spreading out draft paper and rapidly calculating on a table set up in the open air.

He drew a force diagram of the wooden box storing the detonation lens within the shock absorption module, and then took out the special high-strength material that He Chenggong had found.

Steel wire rope.

To make these steel wire ropes function as vibration isolators, they need to be woven one by one into elastic vibration isolating rings using a spiral winding method. Then, the inner box containing the detonation lens is suspended and fixed inside the outer box by these steel wire ropes.

The principle is actually not complicated; what's complicated is how to specifically wind the spiral!

Zhou Yunxiao wrote down a row of unfamiliar equations, which were completely unheard of by Li Difeng and the technicians of the Second Division. Even He Chenggong, Dean Lu's disciple, was baffled and had never seen such equations before.

He asked curiously, "What kind of equation is this?"

Zhou Yunxiao, without looking up, said, "Topological geometric arrays, a new type of formula for solving spatial geometry problems. You may not have seen it before, but when I was studying in Moscow, the scientists there were already quite proficient in using it."

Because detonation lenses are extremely sensitive, the spiral winding method of the steel wire rope must be accurate to the millimeter level in order to perfectly absorb the shock waves.

Only topological geometry can solve this problem.

In order to draw the detonation lens more accurately, Zhou Yunxiao observed the aluminum boxes that stored the atomic bomb for a long time.

The so-called lens is actually a way of arranging the explosive charge in an atomic bomb.

Just as a magnifying glass can focus a beam of light, a detonation lens can generate a converging wave, focusing normally diverging explosive shock waves into a high-speed jet, and can precisely control the speed of the explosive wave of chemical explosives.

However, the lens must achieve a completely symmetrical implosion in order to utilize the enormous energy generated by the chemical explosive to uniformly and stably compress the uranium-23X core until it becomes a subcritical uranium sphere, thereby triggering a chain reaction.

If the detonation is not synchronized or the compression is asymmetrical, then uranium-23X will be squeezed and deformed, becoming a dud bomb!

To ensure the maximum stability of the explosion lens and its safety during long-distance transportation, the difference in shock absorption of each suspension steel cable must not exceed 5%.

This is the conclusion reached by netizens after simulation.

Zhou Yunxiao then used this as a boundary to develop his design using topological geometric arrays.

About two hours later, he finished the drawings and handed them to He Chenggong, who was eagerly waiting. "This is the last set of components for the vibration damping base. A total of 36 elastic steel wire rope vibration isolation rings need to be made. Each one must have millimeter-level tolerances, and the difference between them cannot exceed five percent. Can you make them?"

The head of the lathe group eagerly patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, Comrade Zhou. Only those with top-notch skills deserve to come to the Jinyintan base. Our group's level eight fitters and welders are all masters among masters. They've never made a mistake since they first picked up a carving knife, and they definitely won't let us down this time either!"

Even if you draw a flower on a blueprint, we can weld it into existence for you!