Oli Johnson speaks to Davide Schiena, Head of Utility Engineering and Buyer Success at Roboze, in regards to the firm’s 3D printing partnerships with MotoGP groups.
In August 2023, Roboze introduced that it had signed a brand new settlement with Ducati Corse, the sports activities division of Ducati Motor Holding Group, to resume its partnership for the 2023 season. Roboze was additionally chosen by the Monster Power Yamaha MotoGP staff in April 2023 to be the associate for the 2023, 2024, and 2025 MotoGP seasons.
The Ducati Lenovo Group, the winner of the 2022 MotoGP World Championship, has a Roboze ARGO 500 3D printer put in in its Borgo Panigale facility, and can have a Plus PRO skilled 3D printer within the paddock to permit the staff to speed up its design and manufacturing processes, and optimise the efficiency of its bikes by means of the lightweighting of parts.
Talking about the advantages Roboze 3D printing is bringing to the MotoGP groups, Davide Schiena, Head of Utility Engineering and Buyer Success at Roboze advised TCT: “The principle benefit of our answer is within the materials versatility. We’re in a position to present supplies that may permit our prospects to get very excessive efficiency at excessive temperatures with a really light-weight materials. Particularly if you happen to take a look at carbon fibre-reinforced PEEK, or the carbon fibre-filled nylon, which is called the Carbon PA PRO. We’re in a position to present the best stiffness that may be achieved with these sorts of supplies. Usually, this sort of know-how and these sorts of supplies are primarily used for aerodynamic surfaces, so wings, flaps and issues like that, and for elements which can be very near the engine and the exhaust system, so it has to resist fairly excessive temperatures with out having any type of deformation or issues.”
The exhaust system on a MotoGP bike can exceed 700 °C based on Schiena, with different elements of the bike reaching temperatures of as much as 300 °C. Based on Roboze, a key attribute of its know-how is the flexibility to interchange steel elements with printed parts product of lighter, high-performance supplies.
Schiena spoke about how the groups resolve which steel or carbon fibre laminate elements will probably be changed with 3D printed parts: “Within the motorsport business, they have an inclination to optimise each single gram that they will save on a motorbike or any type of car. It’s typically extra about changing carbon fibre laminates in these instances, and that’s the explanation why we needed to fine-tune our know-how with a purpose to simply exchange a carbon fibre sheet with our carbon PEEK or carbon PA by respecting the identical thickness of the parts and the identical weight. That is the place we brainstorm with the engineering groups.”
A printer getting used to create parts that can function in high-temperature, high-performance environments must be dependable. For finish use elements, printing, testing, validating after which, within the second iteration, getting one thing totally different from what you already examined and validated could cause issues. Roboze says it approaches 3D printing by accuracy, repeatability, and course of management with tremendous polymers and composites, and tries to pack all of it right into a dependable industrial grade 3D printer.
Schiena advised TCT about the advantages motorsports groups are gaining utilizing its Plus PRO 3D printer, together with on the monitor: “The PRO line is the skilled collection of printers we offer which can be compact gadgets than will be packed and brought to the tracks everywhere in the world. That’s one thing that may be very useful for these groups, for Method 1, MotoGP, Superbike, Method E, any type of competitors, the place the engineering staff can take heed to the suggestions the driving force is offering based on the climate situation or the monitor situation. They usually can barely change the design of some wing, or some flap to make one thing that’s actually optimised on the final second on the monitor.”
