Chapter 1032 Luo Luo's Ingenious Plan to Bring Peace to the World

Chapter 1032 Luo Luo’s clever plan to calm the world...

If the cause is really a cooling rate problem, then for Chang Haonan's processing tasks, he only needs to increase the liquid preheating temperature and lower the cooling rate.

Of course, this is just a principle level.

In specific implementation, considering that the thermal conductivity of the originally used neutral salt solution is not small, and if the preheating temperature is high, there will be evaporation or even boiling problems, there are still some areas that need to be overcome.

Adding another set of pressurizing equipment for this will further increase the complexity of the system.

But if I change the type of liquid, I can’t seem to think of anything that particularly meets the requirements.

In terms of material molding, it is more complicated.

For traditional metallurgical processes, a dedicated stress relief annealing process can be set up.

However, laser selective melting, as a powder molding process, actually cools down while processing.

In other words, even for a 10mm cubic specimen, the cracks that should be formed have already formed before the entire molding process is completed.

Therefore, it is definitely too late to anneal afterwards.

Only real-time post-processing can be considered.

That is, annealing while processing.

Fortunately, annealing is essentially a process of slow heating and then slow cooling.

Theoretically, another annealing laser can be set up to follow the processing laser to complete this operation.

And if we want to think of other methods, it is a matter of metallography.

According to the previous material characterization and the calculation results of Chang Haonan, the eutectoid reaction α→γ+β is very sensitive to the cooling rate. Therefore, more α2 phases with a close-packed hexagonal lattice structure will be formed inside the matrix, and this structure will slip. There is less α2 phase and it is a typical brittle phase. Therefore, the tensile strength of the area containing more α2 phase is lower. When the residual stress is large, it is more likely to become the initiation and expansion area of ​​cracks.

In other words, reducing the proportion of α2 brittle phase can inhibit the occurrence of cracks.

However, the process of melting and molding itself will affect the phase composition of the final product, so affecting the whole body is not much simpler than the idea of ​​annealing while processing...

In short, there is no way to solve the problem by just doing it.

But at least the research direction can be determined.

After clarifying his thoughts in his mind, Chang Haonan quickly tidied up the table, and then briefly described his thoughts to the other two.

Next, there was a long silence...

In the end, it was Lu Qingsong who spoke first:

"Although there is no evidence...but at least the speculation is reasonable."

Hang Zhibin also said immediately:

"We can specially produce a batch of samples with molding progress ranging from 20% to 90%, and then use them for scanning electron microscopy inspection and X-ray diffraction analysis, so that we can quickly judge the two intermediate speculations of Mr. Chang. That is to say, cracks are generated at the same time during the molding process, and the content of the α2 brittle phase will affect whether the difficulty of crack generation is correct. "

"If these two contents are correct, then although it is not particularly rigorous, it can be basically considered that the crack generation mechanism mentioned by Mr. Chang before is no problem."

If there is no problem with the mechanism, then there will be no problem with the subsequent solution.

Therefore, the three people quickly reached an agreement on the matter.

"Then the next step..."

Just when Chang Haonan was about to formally arrange the follow-up work, Hang Zhibin suddenly changed the subject:

"Wait, there is one more thing..."

Chang Haonan and Lu Qingsong turned to him at the same time.

"This process requires multiple comparisons with the samples provided by the British side, and we originally had to conduct comparative tests on the machining properties of the materials later..."

Hang Zhibin explained:

"So, we need more samples, I mean... the semi-finished products samples provided by the British side."

Hearing this request, Lu Qingsong hesitated.

"But now the quantity is not enough..."

However, Chang Haonan agreed happily:

"That doesn't matter. Just ask Luoluo for the second batch of samples."

"ah?"

Lu Qingsong looked at Chang Haonan with a confused expression.

The latter replied nonchalantly:

"The contract does not stipulate the specific use of these samples, it just requires us to return them after testing."

"We don't want to use it because we are worried about leaking secrets, but Researcher Hang's test is to reverse engineer them, and there are no secrets to leak..."

The confusion on Lu Qingsong's face suddenly turned into realization——

I'm still trapped by my fixed mindset...

…

Soon, Rolls-Royce received a request for a second batch of processing samples.

Moreover, according to the contract, the first batch of consumed samples was also returned to Ciro Company at the same time.

The latter brought it to the UK as a human express delivery as quickly as possible——

The low-pressure turbine assembly is smaller, and the samples themselves are limited in number, so there's no need to bring a cargo box like last time.

The person responsible for this human flesh delivery was Adam Whittle, one of the two British representatives of Ciro Company.

As soon as he got off the plane, he was taken directly to Rolls-Royce's headquarters in Derbyshire.

Including Lapworth, Bodie, and the head of the process team, Nate McGill, almost one-third of the supervisory leaders of the Trent 900 project team are already waiting here.

This posture directly surprised and delighted Whittle, who had left the core circle of Rolls-Royce for many years.

"Is this the waste produced by the Chinese during the process testing?"

Lapworth carefully pulled out a blade blank from the sample bag, frowned, and asked.

Although she said this to Whittle, the latter was obviously not at the top of the priority list for answering questions.

McGill, who was sitting next to her, leaned over to take a look and gave a positive answer directly:

"Yes, we made special marks on the root and tip of the blade before shipping, and this one was obviously not replaced."

"No..."

Lapworth held his forehead helplessly:

"I mean... the nickel-based alloy blade they took out last time was perfect, but how come this one..."

She turned the blade around and showed it to the other people around her.

Then, a burst of inhalation sounded in the conference room-

The entire upper surface was almost covered with fine cracks visible to the naked eye.

Even without any testing equipment, it was known that it was definitely waste.

It was completely different from the samples in the previous trial production process.

"If you ask me, this is normal."

McGill was originally responsible for process research and development, and had a very clear understanding of the difficulty of this process:

"The processing characteristics of titanium alloy and nickel alloy are far apart. They obviously had no experience in this area in the past, so they can only explore from the beginning..."

At this point, he took the blade in his hand, looked at it for a while and smiled:

"And only in this way can we fully understand the research and development process of the Chinese, and thus deduce the specific process routes they use, and even... process parameters."

Bodi, who had been silent just now, frowned at this time:

"Don't rely too much on these, McGill."

"You know, the results obtained by reverse deduction like this may not be completely correct sometimes... It may even interfere with the normal research and development process."

In fact, he didn't support reverse engineering at first, but McGill persuaded the director of the Trent 900 project, who was also the direct superior of all of them, to turn his suggestion into a decision.

After hearing this, the latter returned the blade in his hand to Lapworth, wiped the unknown liquid on his hand and said:

"So... I divided my people into two groups, one group is responsible for cooperating with Oxford Optical Instruments to continue forward development, and the other group will work with me to try to find something useful from the Chinese test samples."

"And from the current situation, the Chinese... are not aware of our methods..."