Chapter 1089 Materials

Koufan Wubing read the recent investment report of Southeast Heavy Industry Group. Or two..." It hurts. In less than a year, more than 600 million yuan has been invested in several laboratory projects, which is indeed a bit much.

However, judging from the current projects, Fan Wubing feels that it is still necessary, especially the early subject of electromagnetic armor or composite armor, which is relatively important and will have a wide range of uses in the future. There is no need to worry about the collection. No cost recovery.

In fact, these projects have the largest investment in the initial stage of construction. Once they are on track, the capital consumption will be relatively small. Next, Southeast Heavy Industry Group asked Fan Wubing to conduct research for the next year. The project budget is probably over 3 billion, which is relatively less.

"Of course, if there are new projects to be approved, or additional investment is required, the main leadership of Southeast Heavy Industry Group particularly emphasized this point when reporting to Fan Wubing.

Fan Wubing looked at the budget report, then signed it and handed it to them before saying, "Soon our large aircraft project will enter the operation stage, but some supporting things have not yet caught up. If we want to The platform required for converting a large aircraft into an airborne early warning aircraft should also be prepared in advance. "

The design plan for the large aircraft project led by Fan Investment Group has long been out. The digestion and absorption of the engine samples and some key technical information obtained from Russia has also been completed, and some key materials have also been implemented. At this time, the overall design and project refinement work is in steady progress. If nothing unexpected happens, the actual operation can begin as soon as the New Year is over. At present, everyone is still very confident that this work can be completed within three years.

Once there are mature large aircraft models. Then it would be much easier to use this as a platform to build various types of practical large aircraft. At this time, Fan Wubing's mind was basically occupied with airborne early warning aircraft, aerial tankers, large strategic transport aircraft, etc. Fully occupied.

Based on his various ideas, things like stealth technology, anti-stealth technology, composite armor technology and electromagnetic armor technology that should be researched now are quite exciting to Fan Wubing. He hopes that after the large aircraft is released, You can connect to these platforms immediately and quickly enter actual combat exercises.

In this case. The experts from the Southeast Heavy Industry Group worked busily again before finally sorting out Fan Wubing's request. Naturally, one of the biggest advantages in the country is that there is no need to worry about the lack of manpower, even for professionals. There is no lack of it, what is lacking is just investment and decision-making.

In the past, it was under the leadership of the government because of excessive investment and some internal reasons. Some projects have never been established, such as the large aircraft project. Obviously many people have seen the problems, but due to the constraints of various interest groups, the top management has never decided whether to initiate the project.

Now Fan Wubing has integrated this part of the technical strength,

Projects are implemented in a private capacity. Whether to establish a project only depends on his personal opinion, so these things become very simple, a system conversion. The most difficult thing to solve was solved immediately, because several major companies actually did not have a board of directors. There is only one major shareholder, Fan Wubing, and the government's shareholding is only a technical way of occupying part of the equity. Therefore, what Fan Wubing said is the direction of the company's efforts. "After Fan Wubing increased the budget of Southeast Heavy Industry Group by two billion, he finally sorted out the situation here.

After finishing the work here, Fan Wubing also discovered a very important problem, that is, the importance of his Materials Application Research Institute became more and more prominent.

People always regard new material technology as the basis of high technology. All major countries have placed the development of new material technology in a special national strategic position. Since the 1980s, the United States has spent billions of dollars every year on research and development. New materials focus on metal composite materials, alloys, high-temperature structural ceramics, high-crystalline polymer materials, etc. At present, the United States is already far ahead in the two fields of composite materials and polymer materials.

Japan is naturally unwilling to lag behind. In the industrial basic technology research and development plan formulated and implemented by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, a total of twelve research and development projects are included, of which new materials account for half, focusing on precision ceramics and high conductivity. Molecular materials, composite materials, photoreactive materials and electronic information materials, etc. Japan currently leads the world in fields such as precision ceramics, optical fiber materials, and electronic information materials.

The European Union has also specially formulated a new materials development plan. In the Eureka Project alone, there are as many as 30 new materials research projects.

A common focus of research in various countries is high-performance structural materials. They are new materials with special properties such as high strength, high toughness, high temperature resistance, wear resistance, corrosion resistance, etc., such as the research and development of high-efficiency ceramic engines.

Using ceramic motors, the working temperature of the motor can be increased from one thousand degrees to one thousand three hundred degrees, and the thermal efficiency can be increased from 30% to 50%. Weight Sailsian 2/20. Dye savings are thirty to fifty percent.

According to predictions by experts from the Ford Motor Company, if all cars in the United States were powered by Bei Ceramics engines, at least 500 million barrels of oil could be saved every year.

In recent years, the United States has invested more than one billion U.S. dollars and organized dozens of companies to engage in the research and development of ceramic ceramics. Among them, large companies such as General Motors, Ford Motor Company, and Knowlton Company have successively established specialized production centers for new ceramics. .

Japan also regards structural ceramics as another new field after microelectronics that can bring huge benefits to enterprises, so its competitors in the United States do not hesitate to pay. There are currently thousands of companies engaged in the development and installation of new ceramics. At present, Japan's introduction of ceramic engines has formed a large scale and has been equipped with some cars.

Germany is also at the forefront of the world in its research on ceramic motors, including Mercedes-Benz's new cars. I used a ceramic motive and it worked well. In the Eureka Project, France, Germany and Sweden have jointly developed ceramic motors since the 1980s. Its working stability can reach 1,600 degrees, which is 600 degrees higher than ordinary motors. As you can imagine How much can its efficiency be improved?

As for composite materials, they are composed of matrix materials including resin, metal, ceramics, etc. and reinforcements. The mechanical properties and functions of composite materials can be determined according to actual needs. Obtained through appropriate material selection and optimized design.

Composite materials are widely used in many fields such as aerospace, automobiles, transportation, bridges, civil construction, and national defense construction. The current focus of composite materials development is on metal-based, ceramic-based, and carbon-based composite materials.

In fact, although the domestic response to this is a little slow, it is not unaware of its importance. The competition in alloy technology has been very fierce in recent years. It is mainly carried out between the United States and Japan. For example, after the Americans appropriately add some ceramic powder to the alloy, the wear resistance of the alloy can be increased by thirty-five times. Another example is an iron alloy developed by Japan. Based memory alloy, it can replace the expensive titanium-based memory alloy, which can reduce the cost by 9%.

As for the so-called plastic alloy, it is also very remarkable.

At the appropriate temperature, plastic alloys can stretch ten, dozens or even hundreds of times without necking. It will not break. It is originally a hard and brittle alloy. People can use its plasticity to blow it into a thin shell like a balloon.

For example, titanium alloy is originally a difficult alloy to produce. Its maximum elongation at room temperature is only about 30%. In the past, when titanium alloys were used to process parts with complex shapes, creep processing methods were often used. , the deformation process takes more than an hour. Now using plastic molding, it generally takes less than eight minutes to manufacture alloy parts with any shape.

Titanium alloys are widely used in aircraft, missiles and space shuttles. In order to solve the problem of difficult parts processing, in addition to plastic molding, plastic diffusion connection can also be used. Specifically, the temperature is controlled below the melting point of the metal for welding, and under sufficient heat and pressure, the atoms and molecules on the contact surface of the two metals spread to each other, thereby connecting them into a whole.

For titanium alloys. The temperatures of these two technologies are very similar. Therefore, both processes can be performed on it at the same time. That is to say, it can complete the task of diffusion connection during the deformation process. In this way, large components with quite complicated shapes can be directly processed at one time. Compared with the previous suppression and welding, the cost can be reduced by 6%. ten. Reduce weight by fifty percent.

In fact, European, American and Japanese countries have conducted extensive and in-depth research on the plasticity of metal materials. In addition to titanium alloys, they have also made outstanding research results on the plasticity of high-strength steels and high-temperature alloys.

The Materials Research Institute under the Fan Investment Group started research on this project mainly after Fan Wubing brought back the Ukrainian experts and based on their suggestions. Although it started relatively late, this research has also been With the participation and support of the military, it has developed rapidly. The current ceramic motor technology has made some breakthroughs, and it is estimated that it will not be long before it can enter the practical stage.

In the past, the Soviets used to fill small armors with emery. Although the effect was very good, it was really a waste. If they were filled with special ceramics made of new materials, the cost would be much lower and the effect would be better.

Today, Fan Wubing deeply feels that as a big shot with a holistic view, there are indeed many things that need to be considered, if the various industries under his control do not work together. The income and development of probably every industry will be greatly reduced.

Probably, the ultimate secret of the information age is actually here.