Central South University, academician Zhong Jue is one of the leading figures in the development of new material, she led the "efficient use of resources and high-performance aluminum aluminum theory and technology" researches and received the State Scientific and Technological Progress Award for that.
In the summer of 2015, she led the research team that developed China's largest aluminum cylindrical ingot. "This is aimed at developping a new generation of heavy launch vehicle components." Zhongyuan Shi told reporters, as into space, the rocket 95 % weight is made of fuel, therefore, human exploration of space depends largely on the size of the rocket carrying capacity.
The development of the new heavy rocket is one of the nation's top priority project.
After ten years of scientific research, Central South University research team formed a complete set of innovative process for preparing high-performance large-scale aluminum materials and components, the alloy composition of large-sized ingots can be uniformly distributed along the isometric cross-section grain size refinement, gas content is very low, the hydrogen content of the material is just 100g/0.05ml, reaching the world advanced level.
"In fact, in the past 60 years, Central South University bear a lot of new materials and component research and development tasks." Hou Ping, Minister for Scientific Research Ministry, said that Central South University has been involved in research development of China's first atomic bomb, the first artificial satellite, the first long-range missile, the first spacecraft, the first nuclear submarine, the first AEGIS Radar, the first nuclear reactor, as well as numerous aerospace vehicles, weapons and equipment of National Defence.
