Additive Manufacturing in Formula 1®
Dipl. Ing. Christoph Hansen «Head of Additive Manufacturing» The Sauber Group › History The Sauber Group More than 45 years of history in motorsports
1970 1982 1988 1989
Founding of the First assignment to Sauber becomes the Sportscar world PP Sauber AG build a “Le Mans official Mercedes – championship title Prototype” Benz factory team. and double victory at the 24h of Le Mans
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1993 2003 2006 2010
Formula 1 entry Construction of the BMW takes over the Peter Sauber bought own wind tunnel. Sauber Team back the Sauber F1 Team
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2016 2018
The story continues… Don’t miss the Alfa Romeo Sauber F1 Team’s first race in Melbourne on March 25, 2018
Longbow Finance Alfa Romeo buys the Team. becomes the teams title Sponsor.
Page 5 © Sauber Motorsport AG | All Rights Reserved Additive Manufacturing at Sauber › Development of AM at Sauber › AM on the F1® car › AM in the production of the race car › AM in aerodynamics › Third party business › The future of AM in the Sauber Team
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› 1995 - 2007 The AM parts were purchased from external suppliers.
› 2007 Set up of the own production
Machines: 5 SLA 1 SLS
› 2008 - 2018 Due to the rising demand of AM parts, the machine park had to be extended constantly.
Machines: 6 SLA 6 SLS
Page 7 © Sauber Motorsport AG | All Rights Reserved Additive Manufacturing at Sauber History › 06/2017 The partnership wit AI was officially announced
› 10/2017 Start of the set up of the new Metal AM Center
› Today Two Additive Industries MetalFab1 Basic Systems are implemented successfully.
› Near Future Both MetalFab1 are going to be extended with an additional core and a storage module
Page 8 © Sauber Motorsport AG | All Rights Reserved Additive Manufacturing at Sauber Material Selection Plastic AM HiPAC Bluestone HPC Xtreme Parameter (SLS) 1) (SLA) 2) (SLA) 2) (SLA) 2) Density sintered at 25°C approx. 1,2g/cm³ Density solid at 25°C 1.78g/cm³ 1.61g/cm³ 1.19g/cm³ E module bending 7327MPa 8300 - 9800 MPa 9000-9700MPa 1520 - 2070MPa Flexural strength 132MPa 124 - 154 MPa 137-157 MPa 52 - 71 MPa E module tensile force 8304MPa 7600 - 11700MPa 8700-1200MPa 1790 - 1980 MPa Tensile strength 85MPa 66 - 68 MPa 66-89MPa 38 - 44MPa Crack expansion 2.7% 1.4 - 2.4 % 0.8-1.9% 14-22% Melting point 172-176 °C Heat resistance ca. 170°C 54°C Glass transition temp. 71 - 83 °C 62-73°C
1) HiPAC® developed by Sauber Engineering AG 2) Accura® Bluestone / HPC / Xtreme - 3DSystems product
Page 9 © Sauber Motorsport AG | All Rights Reserved Additive Manufacturing at Sauber Material Selection Metal AM AlSi10Mg Titanium Ti64 Parameter (DMLS) (DMLS)
Relative density >99.5% >99.5%
Absolute densitiy 2.67 g/cm3 4.43g/cm3
Ultimate tensile strength horizontal 400 MPa 950 MPa
Ultimate tensile strength vertical 400 MPa 950 MPa
Yield strength horizontal 200 MPa 880 MPa
Yield strength vertical 230 MPa 880 MPa
Elongation at break horizontal 3% 7%
Elongation at break vertical 3% 7%
Youngs modulus horizontal 70 GPa 100 GPa
Youngs modulus vertical 65 GPa 100 GPa
Hardness 100 HV 400 VV
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Page 11 © Sauber Motorsport AG | All Rights Reserved Additive Manufacturing at Sauber Frontwing Benzing (Test) AM on the F1® car Roll Hoop HiPAC/ High Strength Aluminium Metalcoated/ Cooling Ducts Painted for Elecrtics HiPAC
Brake duct scoops HiPAC
Upright Covers Aluminium
Page 12 © Sauber Motorsport AG | All Rights Reserved Additive Manufacturing at Sauber AM on the F1® car Garage equipment HiPAC/Aluminium
Exhaust and Turpo Pipes Inconel / Titanium
Intercooler Pipe/ Radiator Interface Aluminium
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› Mold Production › Laminating cores › Trim and Bonding jigs
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Coolers and Internals (Pressure taps integrated) SLA
Front and rear Wing parts Aluminium, SLA
Floor (Pressure Taps integrated) SLA
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Fields
› Prototyping › Serial Production › Spare part Production
Main Applications
› Automotive Industrie › Industrial Printing Industry › Space and Aviation
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Become Center of Excelence in Additive Manufacturing
› Setup engineering capabilities
› Setup in depth technology know-how
› Understand and control processes in depth
› Setup in depth material know-how
› Colaborations with universities
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Christoph Hansen, Head of Additive Manufacturing Sauber Engineering AG, Wildbachstrasse 9, 8340 Hinwil, Switzerland
Phone: +41 44 937 95 48 Mobile: +41 79 774 50 83
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