Genius of the Rules-Style System

Chapter 845: Chapter 445 Main Design Completion, Review Team Arrives_2

Of course.

Due to the addition of inner piping, relevant parts must be thickened, and the overall weight will indeed increase.

"It’s only one-tenth of the initial estimate, and the power and stability it can provide make the increase in weight acceptable,"

Sun Lei concluded after doing the calculations. freewebnσvel.cѳm

Zhao Yi, however, remained quite indifferent; he already knew the outcome after completing the design. For him, calculations posed no difficulty. He simply presented the design to others, symbolically asking for their opinions to boost their sense of participation.

The best outcome was a unanimous approval.

If there were objections, it was fine; a simple explanation would suffice, followed by selective disregard.

And with that,

All the issues with Sun Lei’s design proposal were corrected.

This set of designs was fully finalized, and an internal celebration ensued within the R&D team. Everyone congratulated Sun Lei on his success; a design’s adoption signified success. Zhou Qing also received a share of the ’credit’. He was envied even more than Sun Lei because he truly just came up with the idea, whereas Sun Lei created the design and followed through with the development, working over twelve hours a day since joining the Kunlun Group 2 and showing considerable effort.

During the celebration, Zhao Yi urged everyone to persevere, "Let’s solve all the problems in one go and design the newest, top-notch fan engine!"

"This project has been dragging on for too long,"

he said seriously, "I’d really like to finish it all at once. There’s not much work left; let’s all strive and push forward..."

Zhao Yi’s encouragement came from the heart, but most people didn’t understand.

"The project has been dragging on for too long?"

"How long?"

Sun Lei asked in confusion, "As far as I know, Kunlun Group 2 was just recently formed, wasn’t it?"

Zhou Qing said, "You arrived late. The time Academician Zhao refers to should start from when we brought over the prototype."

"How long has it been since then?"

"Almost half a year now, we came here after the Chinese New Year in March, and now it’s September!" Zhou Qing replied earnestly.

"Half a year? Long?"

Sun Lei listened in bewilderment, not knowing what to say.

The Wangwu Engine Group was spun off from the Kunlun Engine Group, taking with them a large number of people and technologies. Their job was to make adjustments and improvements based on the existing foundations. It took them over eight years to finalize the design, and despite manufacturing prototypes, they still seemed to be years away from fitting engines to fighter jets, with at least another two or three years left to go.

In contrast, Yanhua University had been studying the Kunlun prototype for only six months, yet it had completed the core research and development of the turbine blade material and substantiated the compressor bleed valve design. The achievements were remarkable.

But, completed design?

"There’s still a lot of work to be done. Judging by the current progress, the soonest, the very soonest we could finish is maybe another year?"

Sun Lei based this estimate on Zhao Yi’s work efficiency. If it were the Wangwu Engine Group, it wouldn’t just be about one year; even three to five years to finalize the design would be considered acceptable.

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Sun Lei vastly underestimated Zhao Yi’s speed because he was unfamiliar with Zhao Yi’s working methods. fɾeewebnoveℓ.co๓

Coming up was the internal blade design, including turbine blades, booster blades, as well as the fan blades at the front end; essentially, all components positioned on the main shaft were designed together.

This inevitably involved Wang Zhiguo’s combustion chamber power verification.

Since arriving at Yanhua University, Wang Zhiguo almost became an overlooked figure, but he worked with great enthusiasm. Before arriving, he had heard that the job involved power verification for blades that could withstand temperatures above 1700 degrees. The power group thought it was pointless, and so did he. However, soon after his arrival, he heard that Zhao Yi led a team to develop nickel alloy turbine blades capable of withstanding temperatures above 1700 degrees, making his job suddenly very valuable.

Hence, Wang Zhiguo’s work was consistently diligent. He spent a considerable amount of time slightly compensating for gaps in skill and experience and produced a design proposal that was fairly rigorous.

Zhao Yi took the design proposal and perfected it after just one night.

The power control scheme was quickly finalized.

Zhao Yi praised Wang Zhiguo’s work and instructed that a bonus be given to him as a form of public encouragement. He then immediately moved on to the design work for the main shaft blades.

The task was immensely complicated.

The main shaft is the core of the turbofan engine’s design; the compressor’s booster blades, the turbine group that provides power in the end, and the fan blades at the front end—they were all incredibly complex. In the Kunlun engine’s design drawings, just the structure and explanations of the three types of blades amounted to dozens of pages.

However, the detailed design instructions provided Zhao Yi with enough information; his job was not to redesign but to make appropriate improvements to the existing designs.

That was sufficient.

In fact, one of the highest ’scores’ the Kunlun engine team received was in the design of the main shaft. This is because the design functions of the main shaft were least affected by material limitations and precision manufacturing processes. The booster blades were designed to increase pressure, and the turbine group simply made the main shaft rotate using combustion power.

If a perfect main shaft design were a hundred points and the world’s top engine main shaft design scored ninety points, Kunlun’s main shaft design would at least score above seventy-five points.

All Zhao Yi needed to do was improve the original design to match the enhanced power of the combustion chamber and the performance of the turbine blade materials. Using "Supervision Law," he could identify design flaws and impacts. Each time he made an improvement in one area, the main shaft design would be elevated.