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Just as Academician Luo finished speaking his point of view, the opinions of others also changed.

Especially those who chose traditional space suits before, and the few who chose power armor, they are more determined about their previous choices in their hearts.

"Teacher Luo, you are right. My idea is indeed narrow. We should stay enterprising and not rest on our laurels."

"Yes, yes, yes, Teacher Luo, I think so too, isn't it just starting from scratch? What's the point? We have previous experience, and the development of new space suits will definitely go smoothly!"

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Everyone in the conference room was echoing the views just expressed by Academician Luo. This does not mean that these people are idle, but that Academician Luo's speech gave them confidence. Since they were able to develop aerospace equipment from scratch, now they Same thing.

"Okay, then the things we collected before will not count. Our next research and development direction will be to optimize and upgrade the power armor."

Academician Luo looked at everyone's attitudes and immediately decided on the direction of research and development. Li Zhenhua watched the changes in everyone on the sidelines and felt that they were immediately full of fighting spirit from the original indifference, and the previous mentality of muddling through immediately disappeared.

[Papapapa] Academician Luo clapped his hands, attracting all the attention.

"Then it's up to you, Academician Li Zhenhua!"

Academician Luo cast his eyes on him and said to him.

Suddenly, he felt a pressure coming towards him. This pressure was something he had never felt before. This pressure came from everyone's hopes for the new space suit and their expectations for him.

Feeling the eyes that everyone was looking at him, he nodded solemnly to them.

"Let's work hard towards success together!"

The determination of the research and development direction set the entire team in motion.

Chi You's powered armor, which does not have much adaptability to the space environment, will be filled with numerous auxiliary systems by the entire team in the coming days.

From airtightness to warmth, from external protection to internal life support, from overall pressure to protection from various cosmic rays, everything must be filled into the power armor, and at the moment the direction was determined, the project was officially named Wu Gang Space suit.

The entire team is divided into many parts, and there are dedicated groups responsible for it from the innermost to the outermost layer.

The underwear comfort layer basically does not require research and development. It can still be designed using the previous technology. It is just that under the guidance of Academicians Li Zhenhua and Luo, it has been made more close-fitting, or tight-fitting.

The thermal layer is similar to the comfort layer of underwear. It still uses materials with high thermal resistance, good warmth retention, softness and light weight. Wool specially bred in Xizhong Hotan is the main raw material of this layer. Of course, there are also There are other thermal insulation materials.

Next is the ventilation layer and water-cooling layer. Don’t think that since there is a thermal insulation layer before, you don’t need a cooling system.

When the human body is moving outside the cabin, the sunlight is not protected by the atmosphere, and various thermal radiations will directly affect the human body temperature. Moreover, the human body is also moving, and as long as it is moving, heat will be generated, which requires a ventilation layer to cool the human body. .

And this is not enough. Sometimes the ventilation layer cannot keep up with the generation of heat energy. This requires the installation of an air conditioner inside to actively cool down the human body.

The next three layers are the airtight restriction layer, the vacuum insulation layer, and the outer protective layer. As for these three layers, they were not left to others to handle, but he and Academician Luo divided them up.

Among them, he is responsible for the manufacturing of the airtight restriction layer and the outer protective layer. The remaining vacuum insulation layer is handed over to Academician Luo, which is very consistent with his major.

Academician Luo has made great achievements in the field of thermal insulation materials, so Academician Luo took the lead in this area.

After knowing what he was going to be responsible for, he communicated with Academician Luo and found out what to do next in the spacesuit, then returned to the cubicle where he worked.

When I returned to the cubicle, I first had a cup of tea, then returned to my seat and sat down. While drinking tea, I thought about how to do the next work.

To say that his importance in the project before was definitely not as important as it is now, but after Academician Luo announced the direction of power armor as the basis, his importance has increased. It cannot be said to be as important as Academician Luo, but it is also in the project. Second place.

And if the status is relatively improved, then you have to take on this second responsibility.

Then he began to recall the two layers he was responsible for. The first was the airtight restriction layer. Its function was to keep the clothing airtight, limit the expansion of the clothing, and allow the major joints to have a certain degree of mobility.

In a vacuum environment, a certain pressure must be maintained around the astronaut's body. Only in this way can the life safety of the astronaut be ensured, which requires this layer to have excellent air tightness.

From his understanding during this period, the airtight layer is generally made of chloroprene-coated nylon tape with good airtightness, fabric with high strength and low elongation, polyester fabric and other materials.

And because it is difficult to move after being pressurized, each joint often uses mesh fabric, bellows, orange-flap type, etc., combined with an air-tight bearing rotation structure to improve mobility.

But he obviously didn't want to use this kind of material in his mind. He still preferred to use metal instead of fiber fabric or tape.

Then he looked at the various required parameters for this material in front of him, and then he wrote down the required parameters. In the following time, he will focus on researching metal materials that meet the requirements.

In his imagination, this layer is the first layer of semi-rigid material in the space suit from the inside to the outside, and it can also be regarded as his exploration of the space suit.

The outer layer is the heat insulation layer. Academician Luo will lead people to complete this layer, so he is very relieved and does not pay attention to this layer.

There is also the outermost layer - the outer protective layer. Its requirements are to prevent fire, thermal radiation, collision and other hazards to the human body caused by various factors in space.

This layer also requires strong wear resistance, high temperature resistance, and the ability to protect the internal layers from damage. There are also color requirements, which are generally white and golden.

He also has many considerations on this level. The outer armor previously applied to the power armor can be used as the outermost armor, and inside this layer of armor, the previously required ones can also be added. Function.

In fact, it is to add one or several layers on top of that layer of external armor to achieve the final goal.

At this moment, when there is a goal to strive for, all that is left is to research and develop towards the goal. In the following days, research and development on the two layers he was responsible for began.

During the day, he was in the studio, converting some of the unique techniques he developed at night into real-life materials, while the night was his time to conduct actual operations in the virtual laboratory.

The virtual laboratory at night was transformed into a factory similar to a large-scale steel complex. Not only could it simulate the production of various steels, but it could also simulate the production of lightweight alloys such as aviation aluminum.

To talk about what he is doing now, he is developing alloy materials for the airtight limiting layer, a lightweight alloy with good airtightness, high strength and low elongation.

He has been working hard on this material in the laboratory for an unknown length of time, and he does not know how many materials have been produced.

It's just that the alloy materials he has produced so far always fall short of his expectations.

Sometimes the strength is enough, but the intimate interface is not that good. Sometimes the air tightness is achieved, but the elongation is a bit high. In short, none of them met his requirements.

It seemed that this situation was trapped in an endless loop, always failing to meet his requirements. Just when he was distressed, he finally came to his senses.

He seems to be a bit stuck. Why do we need to use one kind of material for this layer? Can't a variety of materials be used together?

For example, materials with high strength, low elongation, and insufficient air tightness can be used in places that are not joints and do not affect air tightness.

For the air-tight interface, materials with high air-tightness and high elongation are used, and the combination of the two materials can be completely welded. If the two metals are welded together, there will be air leakage.

Then the more he thought about it, the more excited he became. All the materials he had recently produced were displayed in front of him, and he selected the parts that fit each part from the many materials, and then welded them.

Hard metal is used for areas that do not require movement, and flexible alloy materials are used for areas that require movement, such as joint positions.

Anyway, after he finally removed this layer, it was much stronger than the previous air-tight restriction layer on the traditional space suit. This layer made of all metal materials sounds safe and is lighter in weight than before.

After finishing this layer, the next thing to do is the outer protective layer. The functions he needs to add to this layer are fire protection, heat radiation protection, and various cosmic ray radiation protection.

For these things, he will specially study the principles of radiation protective clothing. His protection for these projects is still a solution starting from the source.

The first is lead, a radiation-proof metal. Lead can not only emit radiation, it can also provide shielding. Didn’t you see that the fire sources in Transformers are all placed in lead rooms?

So he started researching on lead, a metal. As he continued to study lead alloys, the alloy in his hands finally achieved the performance he required.

And in his experiments, this new type of lead alloy was more than ten times more resistant to radiation when used than before. What does this mean?

For example, take the lead clothing worn by doctors. On the premise of ensuring the same radiation protection effect, replacing it with this lead alloy material will reduce the weight of the lead clothing to one-tenth of the original weight.

After he created the lead alloy, he immediately added a layer of metal to the outer armor.

At this point, he has completed two of the three outer and middle layers of the space suit. At this stage, it does not mean that he can start manufacturing a new space suit after completing these. This is just the beginning.

In the studio, he slowly typed the results he had achieved during this period into the real computer. He already had a plan for what to do next.

Unconsciously, another week passed, and he finally entered all the technologies he had worked out in the laboratory and used on the space suit into the computer day and night.

Regarding the bugs in material development, he had already thought of a countermeasure, which was to move the development time of these materials forward to make them materials that he had developed a long time ago, rather than things that were developed recently.

Taking the computer issued to him by the base, he walked towards the cubicle where Academician Luo worked.

Now the two of them are the brains of the entire Wu Gang spacesuit project. Only if their government orders are clear, the entire project will proceed faster.

After seeing Academician Luo, he explained to Academician Luo one by one what he had recently developed. When Academician Luo listened to what he expressed, he fell into a sluggish state on the spot.

The speed of his research and development is really amazing. If they hadn't been controlling it in the base recently and knew that he had no contact with the outside world, Academician Luo would have thought that this was the result of a whole team behind Li Zhenhua.

Now Academician Luo finally believes the outrageous information he saw about him before. It turns out that the research and development of the J-36 was completed by him alone, and the Chi You exoskeleton power armor was also completed by him alone, as well as other products made by him. He also completed the project alone.

Thinking like this, Academician Luo couldn't help but feel a little excited. He was becoming more and more confident in the current research and development of Wu Gang's space suit.

For such a talented and colorful person to join this mission, what else can't be accomplished? It's not just full of confidence, it's speculation based on the actual situation, and the evidence is right in front of him.

"Are these things you have recently researched? It's not that I don't believe you, but this is really incredible. For example, how did these metal materials come from? Although we have a materials laboratory here, I I haven’t seen you go in either!”

Although Academician Luo knew what the facts were, he still asked his questions.

When Li Zhenhua heard Academician Luo's question, he knew in his heart that the other party would find out the origin of these things. Then he started to explain to Academician Luo the reasons he had thought of before.

"Teacher Luo, these materials are not what I have developed now. They are materials I developed long ago.

Some of them were things I accidentally came up with when I was developing other materials. I had no use for them before, so I just threw them aside.

And after I came into contact with our project, I turned them out of my mind. Without these materials, we can easily solve the problems with Wu Gang's space suit. "

After listening to his explanation, Academician Luo gradually accepted his statement with relief, and it was confirmed that these materials would not be available in a short time.

But no one would have thought that these materials were really created by him during this period, and were developed specifically to meet the performance indicators required by the project.

The two did not delay on these things, but began to talk about some designs on the space suit as a whole.

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