Kua tahuri te tīma BWT Alpine F1 ki te Metal Additive Manufacturing (AM) hei whakarei ake i te mahi a ā rātou waka mā te whakaputa i ngā whakaemi waipēhi titanium e mahi katoa ana me te iti rawa o te tapuwae.
Kua maha ngā tau e mahi tahi ana te tīma BWT Alpine F1 me 3D Systems mō te tuku me te whakawhanake tahi. I tana tīmatanga i te tau 2021, ko te tīma, ko ngā taraiwa a Fernando Alonso rāua ko Esteban Ocon i mutu i te 10 me te 11 i te wā kua hipa, i whiriwhiria e rātou te hangarau tā whakarewa tika (DMP) a 3D Systems hei hanga i ngā wāhanga uaua.
Kei te whakapai tonu a Alpine i ana waka, me te whakapai ake i te mahi i roto i ngā huringa whakahoutanga poto rawa. Ko ngā wero tonu ko te mahi i roto i te wāhi iti e wātea ana, te pupuri i te taumaha o te wāhanga kia iti rawa, me te ū ki ngā here ture e huri haere ana.
Nā ngā tohunga o te Rōpū Auahatanga Whakamahia (AIG) o 3D Systems i whakarato te tohungatanga ki te tīma F1 ki te hanga i ngā wāhanga koiri matatini me ngā āhuahanga ā-roto wero, e whakahaerehia ana e te mahi i roto i te titanium.
He whai wāhitanga ahurei te hanga tāpiri hei wikitoria i ngā wero o te auahatanga tere mā te tuku i ngā wāhanga tino uaua me ngā wā arahi poto. Mō ngā wāhanga pēnei i ngā kohikohinga waipēhi a Alpine, me whai tohungatanga hanga tāpiri tāpiri anō te wāhanga angitu nā te uaua o te hoahoa me ngā whakaritenga tino pakari mō te horoi.
Mō ngā whakaemi hiko, inā koa te koiri inertia wai whakatārewatanga o muri, i hangaia e te tīma reihi he ārai whakatārewatanga waea-mārō e whai wāhi ana ki te ārai whakatārewatanga o muri i roto i te pūnaha whakatārewatanga o muri i roto i te pouaka matua o te tuku.
He ngongo roa, mārō te mea kohikohi hiko e penapena ana, e tuku ana hoki i te pūngao ki ngā piki me ngā heke o te pēhanga. Mā te AM ka taea e Alpine te whakanui ake i te roa o te koiri whakamākū me te whakakī i tētahi mahi katoa i roto i tētahi wāhi iti.
"I hangaia e mātou te wāhanga kia tino whai hua te rahinga, kia tohatoha hoki te matotoru o te pakitara i waenga i ngā ngongo tata," te whakamārama a Pat Warner, te kaiwhakahaere matua o te hanga mamati mō te tīma BWT Alpine F1. "Ko AM anake ka taea te whakatutuki i tēnei."
I hangaia te koiri whakamātao titanium whakamutunga mā te whakamahi i te DMP Flex 350 a 3D Systems, he pūnaha AM whakarewa mahi-teitei me te hau tā kore mahi. Mā te hoahoa pūnaha ahurei o ngā mīhini DMP a 3D Systems ka whakarite kia pakari, kia tika, kia parakore te matū o ngā wāhanga, ā, kia rite ki te auau e hiahiatia ana hei whakaputa wāhanga.
I te wā e mahi ana, ka whakakīia te koiri whakamākū ki te wai, ā, ka whakataurite i ngā piki me ngā heke o te pēhanga i roto i te pūnaha mā te mimiti me te tuku i te pūngao. Kia tika ai te mahi, he whakaritenga horoi kei ngā wai hei karo i te poke.
He nui ngā painga o te hoahoa me te whakaputa i tēnei wāhanga mā te whakamahi i te konganuku AM, arā, te mahi, te whakaurunga ki ngā pūnaha nunui ake, me te penapena taumaha. Kei te tuku a 3D Systems i tētahi pūmanawa e kiia nei ko 3DXpert, he pūmanawa katoa-i-te-kotahi mō te whakarite, te arotau me te whakahaere i ngā rerengamahi tā konganuku.
I whiriwhiria e te tīma BWT Alpine F1 te rauemi LaserForm Ti Gr23 (A) mō āna pākahiko, me te kī he kaha teitei me tōna āheinga ki te whakaputa tika i ngā wāhanga angiangi hei take i whiriwhiria ai.
He hoa mahi a 3D Systems mō ngā rau o ngā tono nui i roto i ngā ahumahi e tino hira ana te kounga me te mahi. Ka whakaratohia hoki e te kamupene te whakawhiti hangarau hei āwhina i ngā kiritaki ki te whakamahi angitu i te hanga taapiri i roto i ā rātou ake whare.
Whai muri i te angitu o ngā whakaemi tānga-tiamine a te tīma BWT Alpine F1, i kī a Warner kei te akiakihia te tīma ki te whai i ngā wāhanga whakatārewatanga uaua ake i te tau e haere ake nei.