For instance, the personnel involved in research and developnt.
This is mostly classified information; to the outside, only the nas of the team leaders would be disclosed. The public would know of the achievent but not who exactly did the R&D, who contributed more, and so on. However, internally, the information was accessible.
The achievent announcent from Steel Plant 307 ntioned "Academician Zhao Yi’s report suggestions", indicating Zhao Yi was the main contributor to the achievent, with He Guilin’s research team as the verifier, "having participated in designing the revised experintal process". The word "design" alone testified to their contribution.
Zhao Yi was the primary contributor, providing "theoretical contributions"; He Guilin’s research team was second, responsible for designing and conducting the experints that validated the entire process.
And thus the final results were obtained.
The content of the achievents released by Steel Plant 307 caused a sensation. The two main enhancents to the K03A were "about a 20% improvent in corrosion resistance", and secondly, "a lting point raised to 1431 Celsius".
The role of corrosion resistance in turbine blade materials isn’t as obvious as the lting point but directly relates to the material’s service life. High corrosion resistance ensures a longer service life, but the actual duration would still need empirical validation, as theoretical calculations were sowhat unreliable.
What attracted more attention was "the increase in lting point".
The Aviation Group, which had the greatest interest in the turbine blade materials, was quite surprised and very excited when they saw the announcent. This was because an increase in material lting point also ant that the performance of their self-developed turbine engines would improve, possibly catching up with the international advanced level.
This was crucial for the developnt of dostic aviation technology.
Chairman Liu Jiankun of the Aviation Group imdiately called to congratulate Steel Plant 307 on their latest achievents and then thought of Zhao Yi, filled with satisfaction, "Believing in Zhao Yi was the right choice, after all!"
"Zhao Yi gets involved in the R&D, and imdiately there are results!"
"In no ti at all!"
The Departnt of Science and Technology shared this sentint; earlier, Zhao Yi had applied for a project on R&D of turbine blade alloy materials, choosing nickel-iron alloy as the direction. The project proposal report stated to continue R&D along the lines of K03A, so they authorized funding imdiately. Later, they also consulted experts from turbine teams, tallurgical research institutes, and aviation materials research institutes who were renowned in alloy materials, none of whom were optimistic about the R&D direction of nickel-iron alloys.
However, the project had already been approved, and it was too late for regrets, especially since the other party was Zhao Yi, in whom they still had high hopes.
And the result?
In less than a month, under the guidance of Zhao Yi’s suggestions, Steel Plant 307 improved the manufacturing process, significantly enhancing the performance of the K03A.
This was indeed an achievent!
Inside the Departnt of Science and Technology, they discussed, "I heard that after Academician Zhao received the funds, he spent money on building a tal materials laboratory. I thought it was hopeless, that the money had gone to waste, as if it were rely supporting university infrastructure."
"Unexpectedly, such a quick and significant breakthrough, 20 million, well spent!"
"Truly worth it!"
"The funds shouldn’t all be spent, right? I noticed a few days ago that only over eight million had been reported, mainly for applying for new equipnt."
"There’s still twelve million left!"
"With just eight million, an outco was achieved. Academician Zhao is indeed highly efficient!"
"With the performance-enhanced K03A, our turbine engines can now closely follow the international standard!"
"..."
Many people believed that the performance enhancent of the K03A was the result of the project applied for by Zhao Yi.
In reality, Zhao Yi’s research hadn’t even started yet.
He was in the tal materials laboratory, discussing with Shen Binghe about rare tals. Adding rhenium was a new and high-end research topic that required thorough validation.
Zhao Yi was unsure where to start; he needed several ’advisors’ to first validate and design a few experints to obtain enough data to know how to add rhenium in a way that would enhance the performance of the K03A.
Li Rongmao was in the operation room, adjusting the equipnt. New equipnt, much like new cars, needed to be run a few tis for acclimatization; after the ’warm-up exercise’, it would perform well.
The task of tuning the equipnt was quite relaxed, and when he had ti, he would sit in front of the computer and follow news from related fields.
Li Rongmao enjoyed this leisurely work environnt, which made him feel very relaxed. In just over a week, his whole deanor had changed.
When browsing the latest news, he ca across the announcent made by Steel Plant 307.
"Further improvent in K03A’s performance?"
"Advised by Academician Zhao? A lting point of 1430 Celsius? Are you kidding?"
Li Rongmao’s mouth dropped open in amazent; having worked on alloy material R&D, he knew better than anyone what a concept of 1430 Celsius lting point was. Until now, the highest lting point alloy they had produced for single-crystal nickel alloys was only around 1200 Celsius.
That was already quite high.
It was precisely because they developed a single-crystal nickel alloy with a 1200 Celsius lting point that Peng Engui dared to say to reporters, "Developing a single-crystal nickel alloy to replace the K03A is just a matter of ti."
It was still a matter of ti.
The difference was that previously the ti fra was a few months, a year; after the last improvent, it was three, five years; now it was...
"Ten years?"
"Is it possible?"
"If we are lucky, five years might be possible, but at least five years are needed. If luck is not on our side, not even ten years would suffice!"
Li Rongmao made a judgnt, then suddenly thought of sothing. He had been poached by Zhao Yi to work in the tal materials laboratory with the purpose of undertaking the nickel-iron alloy R&D project. But it seed the project was already finished?
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