Genius of the Rules-Style System

Chapter 783: Chapter 423: Isn’t That Our Laboratory?

Power Engineering Laboratory.

Zhao Yi was stuck with the turbine blade alloy material problem but did not stop improving the engine. Setting aside the turbine blade problem for now, he continued to discuss the turbine structure with Yuan Haitao and Zhou Qing.

Structure is design.

The material of the turbine blades is a hard currency, the most fundamental problem, directly affecting the engine’s effectiveness. But the ’soft power’ of design is also crucial, directly influencing the engine’s performance.

The most critical components inside the turbine engine are the blades, along with other gears and shafts that drive the blades to rotate. The design of the blades and other components must be coordinated to make the turbine engine run smoothly.

The design of these complex components is a significant issue.

The Kunlun engine development team came up with several proposals, eventually choosing one with slightly better supporting materials. However, without any reference prototypes and with highly complex structures, there isn’t enough theoretical support for their final proposal, which might not be better than those eliminated.

So, the main issue is still the ’theoretical problem’.

Zhao Yi couldn’t come up with a perfect plan directly, as the data involved in formulating schemes varied greatly, leading to enormous computational requirements. Even the most advanced supercomputers couldn’t create a so-called ’perfect solution’.

When they realized they couldn’t come up with a complete perfect design, they decided to improve it bit by bit. For example, under the condition of accepting the turbine blade design, they would expand to the connected components, gradually improving bit by bit, until the last component.

This approach might not result in the most perfect scheme, but it would surely yield better results than the existing design.

Zhao Yi discussed the turbine issues with Yuan Haitao and Zhou Qing for a while before deciding, "Let’s disassemble the turbine first, take everything apart, and let me have a closer look."

Yuan Haitao hesitated and asked, "Don’t we have design drawings?"

"Design drawings are not intuitive."

Zhao Yi explained, "Only by disassembling and looking at the actual structure can you better understand." freewёbnoνel.com

Yuan Haitao and Zhou Qing exchanged glances and could only agree, "Disassemble! Disassemble!"

"Get on with it!"

Both were somewhat puzzled.

The turbine and combustion chamber are connected but are separate components. They can be tested separately, and disassembling them is acceptable. But the turbine is a single component, like a car engine. With the combustion part already removed, what’s the point of disassembling the thrust and shaft sections?

Check the component assembly?

But it’s all in the engine design drawings...

Zhao Yi didn’t care about their thoughts. He wanted to disassemble it and look, allowing him to get more conditions to improve the design plan. Once the new design plan is established, the prototype will have completed its mission, and whether it’s reassembled or not doesn’t matter.

So he didn’t feel the slightest bit of regret but enthusiastically participated in the disassembly work.

It was like getting an unknown mechanical toy— wanting to know what was inside meant taking it apart. The process was interesting, and each disassembled component was carefully examined.

The more Zhao Yi disassembled, the more interesting he found it, eventually asking others to teach him how to do it himself. When he removed the shaft, he felt a new sense of accomplishment.

"This is so interesting..."

"So, men should tinker with mechanical things from time to time. No wonder many news stories talk about someone creating homemade rockets or other machines—whether they have any real meaning or not doesn’t matter, as the key is the process... It’s very enjoyable."

Others didn’t see it that way.

Yuan Haitao watched as Zhao Yi enthusiastically participated in the disassembly work, even taking over other people’s tasks, and couldn’t help but mutter, "Academician Zhao didn’t decide to disassemble the turbine just for... fun, did he?"

Another engineer in his forties, Xue Fengge, happened to overhear Yuan Haitao’s words and immediately shook his head: "Captain Yuan, in my opinion, Academician Zhao is taking it very seriously. He asks about each component and learns about the specific principles. He’s always been like this. I think..."

After listening for a moment, Xue Fengge confirmed, "He wants to design his turbine engine plan and build one."

"What?"

Yuan Haitao genuinely hadn’t expected that.

Although he had been discussing turbine issues with Zhao Yi, he believed they were only discussing design plans, identifying problems to be recorded and submitted for review.

Now they were devising their plan and building it themselves?

Was that even possible?

The Kunlun Engine has a dedicated team designing the turbine, which initially had seven or eight people and grew to a team of over ten after working for over a decade. frёewebnoѵel.ƈo๓

After successfully building the first prototype of the Kunlun Engine, the turbine research and development team reorganized and settled in Wucheng’s R&D base, becoming a separate department named the Wucheng Aviation Turbine Team.

This R&D team’s mission was to research and develop aviation turbine engines. Of course, their research wasn’t limited to design but also included materials for the turbine engine. Although the alloy material part hadn’t made any progress, their work as a team was dedicated to researching turbines.