The finished product now had a lting point over 1600 degrees, sothing that was once unthinkable. Everyone felt that this was already enough, after all, we were the second in the world. Did we even need to strive for the first place?
"Furthermore..."
"What’s the point in aiming for the first place?" Not only Li Rongmao and Zhang Hongtao thought this way, but even Wang Zhifang felt the sa, "Even if we create the highest lting point, most advanced nickel alloy, what’s the use?"
"It’s unnecessary!"
"Dostic engines don’t even need it!" They kept these thoughts to themselves without vocalizing them.
Zhao Yi seed to be able to see through everyone’s thoughts; he said seriously, "I know everyone is satisfied with our current results, but that’s just who I am. No matter if it’s useful or not, if I do sothing, I aim to do it the best."
"Indeed, we have produced a material with a lting point exceeding sixteen hundred degrees, and its performance is already sufficient for use.
"However, I don’t want to see one day, when there is a dostic need, that the material we are researching now isn’t up to standard, and by then, our work will be replaced by new materials."
"Group Leader He, you know what I’m talking about, don’t you?"
Zhao Yi said this and turned to see He Guilin.
He Guilin shared the sa thoughts as everyone else, but after hearing Zhao Yi’s words, he deeply related and nodded, "That’s right, more than a decade ago, we all thought the performance of K03A was sufficient. But later, both the Kunlun and Wangwu engine groups found our performance lacking; they only used K03A because they had no other choice."
"Our entire R&D group knew it was only a matter of ti before K03A would be replaced!"
"That feeling... how should I put it?"
"Anyway, I felt like our entire group was rather useless." After He Guilin finished, he looked at the others and said, "I support Academician Zhao’s idea; the research must continue. Since we’re capable of further improving the material’s performance, why shouldn’t we?"
After He Guilin spoke, the others nodded in agreent as well.
Indeed.
Publicizing the results wasn’t an urgent matter. Having developed the world’s second-best material was impressive, but who doesn’t want to be the best? Just like in the Olympics, who cares about the silver dalist?
...
The developnt continued.
The next steps were still verification, followed by the third round of experints, which lasted a week and were quite fast. The results were very positive.
The finished product saw further improvent, reaching a lting point of 1640 degrees, while the strength remained unchanged.
Zhao Yi decided to continue with the verification experints.
The fourth experint took six days, including previous verifications and experintal phases, and the final product saw another improvent in performance—
A lting point of 1650 degrees!
The fifth experint took only five days because only two aspects of the design were modified. Unfortunately, the final product did not improve upon the fourth experint.
"The lting point is still 1650 degrees!"
"It’s almost the sa as the last product. When I tested it, it felt like the sa thing, even the color was identical."
"And the strength?"
"That’s the sa too, the difference is too small to notice. Even if it is the sa product, there will be differences between different production batches."
"..."
The R&D team all sighed, perhaps accustod to improvents; the previous experints had always led to enhancents in the lting point of the product.
The complete lack of improvent this ti brought about a sense of disappointnt.
Zhao Yi was completely unfazed, "This is normal, not every attempt can yield an improvent."
His words awakened the others.
They realized they were so engrossed in following Zhao Yi’s research that they had lost perspective. In the past, if even one or two out of ten experints yielded an improvent in the product, they could have said the research was highly effective.
"But what next?"
Wang Zhifang voiced the question on everyone’s minds, and all eyes turned to Zhao Yi, "Academician Zhao, do you have a plan?"
"Yes."
Zhao Yi nodded, "Through this experint, we can confirm that Professor Shen’s design has reached its limit."
This was a conclusion.
The others nodded as well.
They had run several experints and could say they had explored all possible improvents; Shen Binghe’s design was researched to ’international peak level’; there was no need to continue.
Zhao Yi continued, "So we have to start a new experint. Weren’t there several justifications before? Li Rongmao, Zhang Hongtao..."
He called out nas directly.
"Right."
Zhao Yi suddenly spoke up, "This ti let’s go with the most rigorous design, Academician Wang, I rember you were ready to explain your design last ti. Now, can you?"
Wang Zhifang was stunned.
He thought of the draft in his backpack, which was ’full of holes’ and very rudintary, and imdiately waved his hand, "Unfortunately, I did not bring it today. Perhaps we should use Hong Tao’s or Rongmao’s design?"
He sounded very certain.
At that mont, Zhang Hongtao suddenly stood up and said, "Teacher Wang, I know you want to give us young people a chance, but we are engaged in important research now; everything must revolve around the research."
"I saw this morning; you put the design into your bag." Saying this, he imdiately went to the chair, took the bag, and started searching through it. Soon he exclaid loudly, "Found it! Academician Wang, I knew you had brought it!"
He placed the design in front of Wang Zhifang, "Academician Zhao said we needed a rigorous design, so please, explain yours. I believe no one’s design could be more rigorous than yours!"
"..."
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