Although Chen Xin was researching and improving the Ergency Survival Pod, when he dismantled these used pods, he saw the possibility of enhancing the do design from the grid structure ford after the non-Newtonian fluid material hardened.
Even though this might sound like two completely unrelated things, they indeed have certain commonalities.
The grid structure used in the Ergency Survival Pod is a complete sphere, and the do's supporting structure is also spherical. In principle, they can be seen as the sa structure.
Therefore, so design elents used in the Ergency Survival Pod can actually be applied to the do structure.
However, there is a huge size difference between the do structure and the Ergency Survival Pod. To apply the technology used in the Ergency Survival Pod to the do, adjustnts to the technology itself are needed.
What Chen Xin was thinking about is whether the characteristic of that non-Newtonian fluid material, which still retains a certain elasticity and has good supporting performance after solidifying upon impact, can be mimicked to enhance the strength of the do support while reducing the weight of the support structure, making the do lighter and enabling it to be larger.
Structurally, both adopt a triangular grid-like supporting structure, but there are differences.
This triangular support structure is the most stable structure, so using such a structure as support is not a novel idea. However, the Ergency Survival Pod uses just a single layer of planar structure, while the do support adopts a more complex three-dinsional structure.
A single-layer planar triangular sh structure, although stable, has so elasticity due to there being only one layer and the material itself having so deformation.
If replaced with rigid material, eliminating that little deformation margin, it would beco incredibly hard.
In Chen Xin's view, this is an aspect that can be utilized.
Although the do structure needs stability, in a certain sense, it also needs so elasticity, which is its impact resistance.
Since it's a cover over a city, although teor impacts are now rare, in case of a teor hit, the do would still be the first to bear the brunt, being the first layer of impact reception.
Strengthening the material strength of the do as much as possible to withstand teor impacts is undoubtedly feasible.
But doing so would undoubtedly make the material processing requirents very high, along with high demands on the materials science itself, requiring a large amount of expensive materials to achieve this.
This, for Chen Xin and the country, while not unacceptable, lacks cost-effectiveness.
So if high cost-effective materials could be used to strengthen the do structure, that would be ideal.
In the current confird Do City design, the selected material for the do structure support is still high-performance steel, constructed into a triangular grid structure in the form of hollow tubes to provide sufficient support and strength.
The outer layer is made of EFTE material into individual triangular airbags, then spliced together to form the outer layer of the do.
This is also designed to resist potential teor impacts.
If it's a large teor impact, nothing needs to be said. Unless Chen Xin creates an Energy Shield, a teor falling would destroy the whole city, making defense irrelevant.
But if it's a small teor, perhaps just a tiny unburned teor fragnt falls, this do structure can at least serve as a buffer, preventing significant damage to the city under the do.
Moreover, even if part of this individual airbag structure is damaged, the damaged part can be replaced without having to replace the entire do for just one hole.
Originally, only steel was suitable for making such large support structures. For other materials, neither strength nor cost was suitable.
But now the ergence of this non-Newtonian liquid material gives Chen Xin new choices and inspiration.
The strength of this material, after solidifying and hardening, has been tested. Although its hardness is not particularly outstanding, its toughness is quite good.
Although the original developnt idea of this material was for it to exist in liquid form, hardening upon impact, utilizing its characteristics after hardening is not impossible to use as a material.
According to Chen Xin's vision, he wants to weave an additional support structure on the surface of the triangular EFTE airbags using this material to enhance the do's strength.
When designing the do structure, Chen Xin actually discussed this with so experts. Initially, steel wire was proposed as a material, but this significantly increased the weight, and steel wire itself being flexible was not strong enough as support.
Although suggestions such as engineering plastics and carbon fiber were proposed later, it was either a cost issue or the material itself did not et the requirents, ultimately leading to the abandonnt of this idea.
But now the ergence of this non-Newtonian liquid material provides Chen Xin with a new option.
He can use this material to fill an additional layer of reinforcent structure inside the EFTE airbags just like the Ergency Survival Pod. When the EFTE airbags are impacted by external forces, this reinforcent layer can serve as support and cushioning, dispersing the impact brought by external forces, and enhancing the strength of the EFTE airbags.
Otherwise, EFTE material itself is also a flexible material. When damaged, it cannot maintain its own shape, which is sowhat troubleso for the do.
For instance, with so small teor fragnts, even though they penetrate the EFTE airbags, they only create a small hole in the airbag. In such cases, without internal reinforcent support, the airbag would completely deflate.
While repair afterward can easily find the damaged part, it still affects the overall performance of the do.
But if the airbag itself has a certain strength, even after being penetrated, it can still maintain its form, thus maintaining the overall shape of the do to the greatest extent, not affecting performance.
Moreover, even if hit by a larger teor, impacting multiple areas, this material as reinforcent support can maintain the overall shape and structure of the EFTE airbags as much as possible, preventing large-scale collapse due to the destruction of the underlying steel structure support.
However, although Chen Xin's idea is good, practical tests are needed to see if it is actually feasible.
Now Chen Xin intends to conduct a simulation test to see if his idea is workable.
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