China has achieved a major scientific milestone with the launch of CHIEF1900, now classified as the most powerful centrifuge in the world designed for hypergravity research.
According to available data, the CHIEF1900 system is capable of generating gravitational forces nearly 1,900 times stronger than Earth’s gravity, allowing scientists to simulate extreme physical conditions across time scales ranging from fractions of a second to thousands of years.
By dramatically increasing gravity, researchers can effectively compress space-time conditions to study how materials, soil, engineering structures, plants and biological tissues behave under intense stress.
The device enables large-scale experimental simulations that would otherwise be impossible in real time. For example, the structural stability of a 300-metre-high dam can be tested by placing a scaled model inside the centrifuge and subjecting it to gravity levels more than 100 times stronger than normal, replicating real-world stress conditions within a controlled laboratory environment.
CHIEF1900 can also be used to analyze resonance characteristics in high-speed railway tracks, assess the stability of underground infrastructure, and study how pollutants migrate through soil over geological timeframes. Developers say the system covers a broad range of experimental environments, from atomic-scale processes to kilometer-scale engineering models, under both normal and extreme temperature and pressure conditions.
The launch of CHIEF1900 comes just months after the United States began operating its CHIEF1300 centrifuge in September, which previously held the global record by generating gravity levels up to 1,300 times that of Earth.
The breakthrough underscores China’s growing investment in advanced scientific infrastructure and its expanding role in frontier research across engineering, environmental science and applied physics.
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