Chapter 382 New Ideas

When Zhou Zhou was forced to take a rest by Fang Ying, Yang Mu had already arrived at the engine test room with cleaning tools.

In fact, when the white smoke dissipated, although there was some chaos here, it was not as messy as imagined.

The laboratory uses carbon dioxide to extinguish fires, which not only isolates oxygen, but also protects these precision instruments from damage, so what is scattered on the ground at this moment are mostly engine fragments, as well as damage to some surrounding equipment caused by the engine explosion. .

Yang Mu put aside the cleaning tools in his hands, walked in carefully, then stopped, lowered his head, and picked up a small fragment at his feet.

This is a fragment that has become charred black under the heat, but when you turn it over in your hand, you can still see the colorful flowing colors. The fragment is square in shape, with obvious cracks in the corners and sharp fractures.

However, Yang Mu recognized it after careful inspection and recognized that it was an internal part of the engine. It was the blade of the turbine inside the engine.

The reason why the mecha's engine uses a jet engine is just because this kind of engine can make the mecha's movement reach the maximum speed on the planet, which is faster than the internal transmission of electricity. ,

Of course, there are more advanced radiation engines, but those engines are used on space mechas. Mechas on the planet generally use jet engines. Of course, they can be replaced when used in space wars.

However, today's jet engines are very different from the original ones. In the early days, mechas used nuclear engines, so the gas in the jets was heated, and the blades rotated, which brought huge propulsion.

Now the engine uses energy batteries, and the air inside is compressed and injected. Because the air is pushed out faster by the agitation of the blades, it will also produce flames, and this flame is caused by the huge flames caused by the rapid passage. generated by friction.

But precisely because of this, the temperature brought by the current mecha engines will be higher. When completing some difficult actions, the amount of air compressed and pushed out by these engines in a short period of time will be greater, and at the same time , is a higher temperature.

Such a high temperature places higher demands on blade materials. The fragment in front of you seems to have broken due to such a situation.

Yang Mu made a final judgment in his mind, put down the fragments in his hand, and then collected the surrounding fragments.

These fragments are also scientific research data. When the time comes, they will be fully reproduced to find out the cause of the explosion and the specific location. Therefore, Yang Mu also picked it up very carefully, and then placed it in the holographic scanner aside for scanning. On the instrument, the suspended positions of each fragment were quickly placed to form a virtual model.

Yang Mu was doing this seriously, and at this time the door of the testing room opened. Yang Mu looked over and found that it was a colleague from the research department named Ge Ping.

Ge Ping is already forty years old. His main job is to conduct preliminary research on failed experiments. Now he is here just for this matter.

Ge Ping came over, saw Yang Mu immediately, and said hello immediately. Yang Mu also stood up immediately, smiled and called "Uncle Ge."

Ge Ping was stunned for a moment, and then responded with a smile.

But the next moment, Ge Ping started his work. First, he carefully removed all the engines from the mecha rack one by one, then inspected the damaged engines, numbered them again, and at the same time quickly inspected each component. , detect their specific situation at this moment.

Yang Mu was also called over by him to help. He quickly scanned the fragments on the ground, and then quickly drew a virtual restoration map with the help of the computer, pre-assembled it with the original engine, and simulated the scattered locations.

The supercomputer gave a lot of solutions, which helped reduce a lot of workload, but Ge Ping was still comparing the models in detail, and Yang Mu, who had finished the cleaning work, quietly stood aside and looked at Ge Ping. Work.

Watching Ge Ping manually put the pieces together into parts, Yang Mu couldn't help but feel that Uncle Ge's skills were very good. At least he could find the corresponding position immediately after taking a look, and the position given by the computer Exactly.

Not only that, while Uncle Ge was assembling it, he would also record the traces of the fragments and preliminary inferences nearby.

Yang Mu repeatedly praised his meticulous reverse derivation work method. Ge Ping occasionally looked up at the big boy standing next to him who was staring intently at his work, and from time to time he mentioned a few points to pay attention to.

"Look at this fragment. Its center is concave, but its surroundings are curled up. At first glance, it looks like it broke and then stirred and collided with other parts in the engine. But in fact, it was hit in the middle by other fragments first. , it was twisted around after deformation, and it became like this." Ge Ping held a component and followed Yang Mu's explanation in detail, and then used tweezers to pick up a fragment from the side. The corner of that fragment and this fragment When put together, the corner coincides with the recessed area in the middle of the fragments.

Yang Mu looked at it carefully and nodded solemnly. Ge Ping was very satisfied when he saw Yang Mu's eagerness to learn. He laughed twice and pointed elsewhere again.

After the parts were laid out, Ge Ping quickly found out the reason. It was because the surface of one blade was not completely polished and smooth, and uneven heating occurred at high temperatures, causing the blades to break and explode under high temperatures and high-speed rotation. At the same time, the surrounding blades were cut off, and finally the surrounding engines were destroyed, causing the entire explosion.

Seeing all this, Ge Ping couldn't help but sigh, saying that it was a pity that this kind of experiment failed not because of design faults, and it also caused the loss of several engines.

Yang Mu stood nearby and naturally knew the whole story, but he also understood that it was a good thing that such a design appeared here, because as long as we pay attention to this problem here, it will be applied in practice when the time comes. Only then can the safety of the mecha warriors be better ensured.

"Uncle Ge, I think this engine is very powerful. Could such power output also be an important cause of damage to the engine?" Yang Mu spoke at the right time and expressed his thoughts.

Uncle Ge was writing the report at this time, looked over, and nodded: "Indeed, this engine is used by a heavy-duty mecha. Its power is higher than that of ordinary mechas, and it was also used just now. That kind of very violent experiment will instantly magnify the defects of the leaves, so this situation occurs."

Yang Mu also nodded in his heart. Indeed, the various actions he just made required the engine to have ultra-high-intensity explosive power in a short period of time. Such an explosion would bring huge pressure to the engine and increase the temperature. It also rises to an extremely high value in a shorter time, which will greatly increase the high temperature pressure on some materials.

"Uncle Ge, is this engine still the most commonly used engine for us?" Yang Mu asked this question again, thinking of the Mulong mecha he originally designed. The jet nozzle of that mecha had some changes. The form of blades compressing and pushing air is almost eliminated, which is still very different from this.

"That's not true. There are still many engines now, such as full-channel engines, which automatically form pressure through multiple air inlets, and even more crude semi-closed air chamber engines. But in terms of stability and output, power, this engine is the most stable.”

Ge Ping finished his report and then added again: "Of course, the radiation engine used in space is better, but the cost performance is also there."

Yang Mu also understood that this jet engine in the traditional sense was the most cost-effective design, but Yang Mu suddenly remembered one of the designs in the drawings in his mind.

"Uncle Ge, what about the engine that is a mixture of radiation engine and jet engine? That kind of engine should be able to solve many of the shortcomings of jet engines, and at the same time, the price will not be too high." Yang Mu asked with interest, but Uncle Ge was He smiled and explained again.

"We have been developing and improving that kind of engine for a long time, but unfortunately, we have not been able to put it into practical application until now. It is still in the experimental design stage."

Yang Mu also remembered that he had not seen this kind of engine twenty years later. It seemed that there were indeed technical obstacles.

"What's the reason?" Yang Mu asked inquiringly.

Uncle Ge had already walked to the door, opened the door, turned around, and gave Yang Mu an answer.

"The hot air and radiation flow stir each other, and the engine cannot tolerate such movement at all. It will explode directly when it is used at high power. The power of the explosion is terrifying."

After saying this, Uncle Ge left here, but Yang Mu was stunned for a moment.

I didn't expect that this kind of engine would have such serious failure consequences, but the design in my mind could not overcome this problem.

Maybe this is a direction you can try.

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