Looking at the seniors of the research group, Zhou Ziwen began to dispatch tasks. "Senior Brother Li, you will bring a few students who are interested in materials science to focus on researching new materials. Go to major scientific research databases to find materials, contact the material suppliers, and see if there are any new materials that meet our requirements, even if they have the potential to improve."
Senior Brother Li nodded, his eyes full of fighting spirit. "Senior Sister Zhang, you and several seniors who are good at mechanical design have collected design drawings and technical parameters of high-precision ball screws and guide rail systems at home and abroad. Carefully compare and analyze to find out the advantages and disadvantages, we take the essence, remove the dross, and provide ideas for our design."
Senior Sister Zhang pushed her glasses and said confidently: "Don't worry, it's wrapped around us."
"Senior Brother Zhao and Senior Sister Sun, you two bring seniors who are familiar with the processing technology to study how to optimize the existing processing process. Go to the school's processing workshop more and communicate with the masters to see if you can find ways to improve accuracy and efficiency from actual operations. Although I am young, I will do my best to fight side by side with everyone!"
Senior Brother Zhao and Senior Sister Sun smiled at each other and said in unison: "No problem, let's work together!"
After arranging the work, Zhou Ziwen also quickly devoted himself to the data sorting and analysis.
He stayed in the school library all day, consulted various professional books on mechanical engineering and the latest academic journals, and conducted more in-depth research on the principles and development history of high-precision ball screws and guide rail systems.
Every time he finds a valuable document, he will carefully mark the key content and then organize the key information into documents for the convenience of sharing and review by team members.
At the same time, the team members are also actively exploring their respective fields.
Senior Brother Li and his team members have screened out more than a dozen new materials with potential application value, but further evaluation is needed in terms of cost, durability and processing difficulty.
Senior Sister Zhang and his team have collected a large amount of design information and are organizing everyone to conduct detailed comparison and analysis, and have initially summarized several innovative design directions.
Senior Brother Zhao and Senior Sister Sun were sleeping in the processing workshop, and they tried different processing techniques from experienced masters repeatedly, improved tool and cutting parameters, and continuously tried to improve processing accuracy.
However, research progress has not been smooth.
During the material screening process, a new alloy material that was originally highly anticipated was found. Although it can theoretically greatly improve the wear resistance and accuracy retention of the ball screw, serious deformation problems occurred in actual simulation tests.
The team held an emergency meeting to discuss solutions.
At the meeting, everyone expressed their opinions.
Senior Brother Li proposed that it can try to adjust the component ratio of the alloy and change its internal structure, which may solve the deformation problem;Senior Brother Zhang believes that there may be problems with the heat treatment process during the processing process and needs to be re-optimized;Senior Brother Zhao believes that the processing accuracy control can be further improved to avoid stress concentration caused by processing errors, which will cause deformation.
Zhou Ziwen listened carefully to everyone's opinions and said after a comprehensive analysis: "Dear seniors, seniors, I think what everyone said makes sense."
"We can divide the troops into three groups. Senior Brother Li continues to adjust the alloy composition ratio and do some small-scale experiments."
"Senior Sister Zhang and Senior Brother Zhao work together to study the optimization plan for heat treatment process and processing accuracy control. We maintain close communication and share the experimental results at any time."
Everyone nodded in agreement and immediately devoted themselves to their respective work.
After a week of hard work, Senior Brother Li found that the adjusted alloy composition ratio improved the deformation problem of the material to a certain extent; Senior Sister Zhang and Senior Brother Zhao also significantly improved the performance of the material in simulation tests by optimizing the heat treatment process and strictly controlling the processing accuracy.
The confidence of the team members has increased greatly and they continue to increase their research efforts.
As the project progresses, time is getting tighter. Zhou Ziwen not only needs to pay attention to the research progress of the team, but also needs to coordinate resources from all parties.
He travels between the laboratory, processing workshop and library every day, always paying attention to the dynamics of every link.
To ensure that the project is completed on time, he developed a detailed schedule and task list, breaking each task down to days, or even hours.
Professor Liu is also very concerned about their projects, often comes to inquire about progress, and provides professional guidance and suggestions.
Every time Professor Liu comes, he will bring new ideas and methods, which will benefit the team members a lot.
Under the encouragement and guidance of Professor Liu, Zhou Ziwen and his team members were in high morale and their research work entered a white-hot stage.
Time passes day by day, and every detail of the project is repeatedly pondered and optimized.
Zhou Ziwen knew very well that what they shoulder was not only the school’s expectations, but also the hope of the country’s breakthrough in the field of high-end precision machine tools.
Finally, on a tense and busy night, Zhou Ziwen received a call from Senior Brother Zhao.
Senior Brother Zhao's excited voice came from the other end of the phone: "Ziwen, we have succeeded! After the optimized processing technology and heat treatment solution, the performance of the new alloy material has completely met the design requirements!"
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Zhou Ziwen was shocked, suppressed his excitement and asked, "Is there any problem?"
"Absolutely no problem! We have done many tests, and the material's wear resistance, accuracy retention and overall performance are excellent!" Senior Brother Zhao replied. "That's great! You wait first, I'll come over right away." Zhou Ziwen said hurriedly.
Although it will be late at night, it will not affect his excitement.
Zhou Ziwen quickly put on his clothes, washed up briefly, and rushed to the laboratory.
When Zhou Ziwen arrived at the laboratory, Senior Brother Zhao, Senior Sister Zhang and other team members were all there.
Although everyone's faces were filled with the fatigue of staying up late, they were more of the joy of success.
In the laboratory, the optimized new alloy material flashes the unique luster of metal under the light, as if telling this difficult and accomplished R&D process.
Zhou Ziwen walked forward and carefully checked the various test data and test reports of the materials, with his eyes full of relief. "This is really great, seniors, seniors! This is the result of everyone's joint efforts." He said excitedly.
The team members gathered around and shared the joy with each other.
Senior Brother Li smiled and said, "Yes, everyone has worked hard during this period, but everything is worth it. We finally overcome this difficulty!"
Senior Sister Zhang pushed her glasses and sighed, "That's right, since the beginning of the material deformation problem, I feel that this project is going to be stuck here. Fortunately, everyone did not give up and kept trying new methods." (End of this chapter)