Chapter 614 of 835
Chapter 614: Follow-up improvement research
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In the test site of the research center, staff are unloading several silver
spheres that are as high as one person from the helicopter cabin.
"Academician, all the emergency survival pods that can be brought back are
here." The crew reported to Chen Xin that these spheres were all the emergency
survival pods that they could bring back.
Chen Xin looked at the silver spheres unloaded from the cabin, nodded and
said: "Thanks for your hard work, go and rest, and send these to my
laboratory."
"Yes, academician." The staff on the side agreed, and after loading the
spheres in a trolley, they transported them to the elevator on the side.
Although these spheres are actually very light and can roll easily, the staff
still did not make any move to directly roll these spheres to Chen Xin's
laboratory.
By the time Chen Xin inspected the Titan used for mountain rescue and asked
about the situation from the driver, when he returned to the laboratory, these
silver spheres had been sent to the laboratory, and several researchers had
already done so. The inspection of these spheres began.
Chen Xin put on his experimental operating suit and put on his protective
equipment before he walked to one of the spheres and asked a researcher who
was checking: "How is the condition of these emergency survival cabins?"
These emergency survival cabins are the same wild survival cabins that were
sent to Chen Xin before. However, after Chen Xin upgraded and improved them,
the practicality of this thing has been changed, so it is also used as a
Emergency survival supplies were provided to the expedition team for actual
testing while providing guarantees.
Although neither Chen Xin nor the Disaster Response Research Institute hoped
to conduct actual tests in this way, it is clear that after the expedition
team encountered an avalanche, they immediately used these emergency survival
cabins that could be used to escape.
So although the first use test is not what Chen Xin expected, since it has
been used, don't waste this precious opportunity to check the use of these
emergency survival cabins.
These emergency survival cabins are no longer what Chen Xin has seen before.
The survival cabins used are all silver spheres full of gas.
This silver layer is not painted paint, but a layer of special heat-insulating
material. The reason why it is silver is to insulate heat radiation.
Chen Xin picked up a utility knife and tried to scratch this layer of
material, but it did not leave any traces.
Chen Xin was very satisfied with this. He didn't just stroke it lightly.
Instead, he stroked it with the force of piercing the outer layer of the
emergency survival cabin, but this did not cut through the material, which was
enough. That it is reliable enough.
In this way, even if you encounter broken ice or stone tips in the wild, you
will at least have a certain degree of resistance.
But even so, Chen Xin used another tool to cut away the outer layer of
insulation.
It's just a little unexpected that although the outer layer of the emergency
survival cabin was cut, causing its interior to leak, the entire survival
cabin still maintained a spherical shape and did not collapse.
Chen Xin was not surprised by this, but continued to peel off the outer layer
of the entire emergency survival cabin, revealing the black grid on the inner
layer.
These black grids are distributed in triangles, and each line has about the
thickness of the refill of a ballpoint pen. It looks like a black line woven
into the inner layer of the emergency survival cabin, making it an emergency.
The structural support of the survival cabin is the same.
It is not wrong to say this. The grid formed by these black lines is indeed
the structural support of the emergency survival cabin, but it is not a line,
but a non-Newtonian liquid material used by the Institute of Disaster
Response.
This material will quickly harden after receiving an impact, and Chen Xin is
taking advantage of this. First, a layer of triangular grid-like pipes are
made of flexible materials in the inner layer of the emergency survival cabin,
and then these pipes are filled with this. Kind of non-Newtonian liquid
material.
In this way, when not in use at ordinary times, flexible materials and liquid
non-Newtonian liquid materials can be folded up very easily without taking up
much space, and can be installed on a backpack and used as a car airbag.
But when it is released and inflated, it is backlogged by the internal gas,
the original liquid non-Newtonian liquid material will quickly solidify and
harden, becoming a support for the structural strength of the emergency
survival cabin.
This non-Newtonian liquid material has high strength after hardening, and it
is difficult to break or deform it even if it is pressed hard.
This allows even if the outer layer of the emergency survival cabin is damaged
and the interior leaks, it can still have a certain outer layer strength to
protect the internal personnel from being injured by external shocks.
Of course, this is weaker in terms of defense than the original full outer
layer of the Disaster Response Institute, which is completely filled with this
material, but considering the cost, this design is still cheaper.
Originally, Chen Xin wanted to use memory metal as the structural support of
the emergency survival cabin. This material has excellent performance, can
quickly restore shape when the temperature changes drastically, and has the
strength and toughness of metal.
Even if things made of memory metal are squashed or rolled into a ball, they
can be restored automatically as long as the temperature changes.
This is a material that has been around for a long time before the disaster,
but due to manufacturing cost issues, this material has not been used on a
large scale.
Chen Xin was also concerned about this, so he did not use memory metal as a
raw material, but instead used the original non-Newtonian liquid material in a
more economical way.
Judging from the current use situation, this non-Newtonian liquid material
performs very well, and has perfectly reached the design requirements of Chen
Xin.
If you insist on saying something is not enough, it may be that this material
cannot be recovered after hardening. It is a one-time material, making the
entire emergency survival cabin unable to be recycled and reused.
Chen Xin didn't pay much attention to this point. After all, this thing was
used to save lives, and it was the last time at most. Who would use this thing
every day?
However, in addition to these issues, Chen Xin was also very concerned about
the use of the expedition team members who spent the night in this emergency
survival cabin, to see if there were any structural improvements that merited
improvement.
At the beginning, Chen Xin only considered the use of emergency avoidance, and
did not consider the situation of staying in the emergency survival cabin for
a long time after using this emergency survival cabin in case someone is
trapped.
Now that he has a clear use case, he certainly hopes to understand the
situation as much as possible so that he can make subsequent improvements.