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3D Printed Shelby Cobra | Department of Energy

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ORNL's newly printed 3D car will be showcased at the 2015 NAIAS in Detroit. This "laboratory on wheels" uses the Shelby Cobra design, celebrating the 50th anniversary of this model and honoring the first vehicle to be voted a national monument.

The Shelby was printed at the Department of Energy’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at ORNL using the BAAM (Big Area Additive Manufacturing) machine and is intended as a “plug-n-play” laboratory on wheels. The Shelby will allow research and development of integrated components to be tested and enhanced in real time, improving the use of sustainable, digital manufacturing solutions in the automotive industry.

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Below is the text version for the video 3D Printed Shelby Cobra:

The video opens with a montage and time-lapse of 3D printing the car frame and parts, workers assembling the pieces, sanding and finishing the body, adding the motor and electronics, the motor, and displaying the final result: a Shelby Cobra in blue with white racing stripes.

LONNIE LOVE, PhD – Manufacturing Demonstration Facility: In a matter of six weeks to go from saying, “Hey, let’s print a car,” to actually having a working vehicle, which is unheard of. Six weeks is insane. What you’re going to see at the Detroit auto show is a car that’s going to shock people. It’s not going to look like a printed vehicle. It’s going to look like a real car. As a matter of fact it’s going to look like a real beautiful car.

On screen: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Manufacturing Demonstration Facility

The Lab is not an auto manufacturer; we’re an auto innovator. We develop technologies that are going to go onto cars in 5 years, 10 years. Things like wireless charging, like lightweight power electronics, like new drivetrains.

On screen: video montage of testing apparatus for wireless charging, lightweight electronics in the vehicle, a vehicle on a drivetrain testing apparatus, and of the 3D printed cobra being assembled.

LOVE: So the reason that I believe that DOE’s Advanced Manufacturing Office got behind this was they saw that we didn’t just want to repeat what had already been done. We want to push the technology forward. So in a matter of six weeks not only have we developed a car, we’ve developed new technologies.

On screen: Caption that reads, "Energy Efficiency" and video of the car, in mid-production, being driven.

LOVE: Number 1, we quantified how much energy – how efficient this manufacturing process is. When you look at how much energy it takes to make a car, this is one of the most energy efficient ways to do it. It’s absolutely shocking.

On screen: "Surface Finish" and video close-up of workers sanding, refining, bonding, and painting the surfaces of the 3D printed parts.

Number 2 is the surface finish. When you look at the parts as they come off of the printers, they’re relatively rough. And right now the body is out at a local company, True Design, and they’re for the first time starting to look at how do you really finish one of these printed bodies. They’ve really had to push the envelope on the chemistry of what paints, what bonding has to go on these materials to give you a really beautiful surface finish. So that was another thing that we’ve developed over the past six weeks is the processes to give you an extremely smooth surface finish not just for the Cobra but for the tools that can be used for the automotive manufacturing industry.

On screen: "Energy Absorption" and video displaying the 3D printed car mid-production.

Number 3 is the energy absorption. So can we design energy absorbing structures using additive we’ve never been able to do before.

On screen: "Speed" with fast-paced progression of images covering the entire process from 3D printing to final product.

And really to me number 4 the most important thing is just speed. The speed at which the national labs can work is absolutely amazing.

On screen: video montage of workers using a mold by laying down sheets of material, rolling on epoxy, and lifting the molded piece off the mold.

Another thing that we’re going to be highlighting and showing at the Detroit Auto Show is a mold. And typically these molds are made out of aluminum or steel. They’ll cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and take months to manufacture. And what we’ve shown is instead of taking months to manufacture, we’ve made a mold in about two days. Instead of costs of hundreds of thousands of dollars, it’s going to be thousands of dollars. It makes you just much more adept, much more nimble, and I think that you’ll see innovation just explode when this tool, these tools are in the hands of typical designers.

On screen: video montage of production process of the 3D printed car, historical photos of sketches and clay models of prototype vehicles, and detailed view of the finished Shelby Cobra.

Are we going to be printing cars in the near future? And the answer is well I don’t know. Highly unlikely in the next in my lifetime we’re going to see mass production of printed vehicles, but the way we make prototype cars today is exactly the same way they made it thirty, forty years ago which is clay models. What we’re showing is we can go well beyond that now. You can go and print out a working prototype vehicle in weeks, in days and drive through the streets and look at people’s involvement, look at people’s excitement. You can test it for form, fit and function. So your ability to innovate quickly has radically changed. I think there’s a whole industry that can be built up around rapid innovation in transportation. And that again is revolutionary.

On screen: Logo of Oak Ridge National Lab; logo of U.S. Department of Energy

3D printing off to the races

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Topic: Clean Energy

April 26, 2019

When race fans convene on Talladega, the legendary motor speedway in Alabama the last weekend in April, they’ll have the opportunity to view a classic sports car turned into a 3D printed laboratory on wheels. The Shelby Cobra, produced by the Department of Energy’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility (MDF) and National Transportation Research Center at ORNL, will be part of Talladega’s fan zone, a highlight of racing festivities April 26-28.

Race fans will have the opportunity to talk to researchers about how the Cobra was produced and learn more about the role advanced manufacturing plays in transportation. The Cobra is appearing at Talladega in partnership with NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. NASA has a keen interest in 3D printing, having deployed a 3D printer aboard the International Space Station and successfully produced a printhead faceplate to investigate how additively manufactured materials perform in space. NASA has qualified 3D printing to aid in the application of the thermal protection system for the powerful deep space rocket, Space Launch System.

ORNL has collaborated with engineers from Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and used neutrons to help understand the potential benefit of printed rocket engine components. The team studied residual stress in additively manufactured materials to qualify them for flight.

Advanced manufacturing is integral to our nation’s supply chain, impacting transportation, aerospace, and even deep space exploration. It’s exciting to see how rapidly additive manufacturing is changing and becoming a mainstream technology.

- Lonnie Love, Corporate Fellow and group leader for ORNL’s Manufacturing Systems Research

“We look forward to celebrating the achievements that have been made in 3D printing by showcasing the Shelby Cobra at Talladega,” said Lonnie Love, Corporate Fellow and group leader for ORNL’s Manufacturing Systems Research. “Advanced manufacturing is integral to our nation’s supply chain, impacting transportation, aerospace, and even deep space exploration. It’s exciting to see how rapidly additive manufacturing is changing and becoming a mainstream technology.”

The 3D printed Shelby Cobra, driven by ORNL Laboratory Director Thomas Zacharia at DOE’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at ORNL.

DOE debuted the Shelby Cobra in 2014. The car was the first large object 3D printed using the BAAM™ (Big Area Additive Manufacturing) system, a machine co-developed by ORNL and Cincinnati Incorporated, which produces lightweight composite parts without the need for tooling. The Cobra has a 3D printed chassis and an electric powertrain. Of the car's 1,400 pounds (635kg), roughly 500 pounds (227kg) was 3D printed out of a strong composite material that contains 20 percent carbon fiber.

Over the past few years, the Cobra has traveled around the world, appearing at international automotive and manufacturing shows in Europe and throughout the United States. However, this is the first time the car has appeared at a NASCAR speedway. While the Cobra won’t be on the track at Talladega, the vehicle has been driven by a racing legend, Bob Bondurant, who raced the Shelby Cobra in the 1960s. Bondurant visited ORNL in 2016 and took the 3D printed version for a spin.

American racing legend Bob Bondurant visited the 3D printed version of the Shelby he raced in the 1960s.

Since printing the Cobra, ORNL has used BAAM™ technology to 3D print a utility vehicle, excavator, submarine, and boat mold and has installed a second BAAM™ at the MDF that enables rapid development of bioderived materials including poplar, bamboo, flax and cellulosic fibers.

The Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at ORNL is supported by the Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Advanced Manufacturing Office. AMO supports early-stage research to advance innovation in U.S. manufacturing and drive U.S. economic competitiveness and energy productivity.

ORNL is managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy's Office of Science, the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States. DOE’s Office of Science is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit https://energy.gov/science. 

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News of additive technologies. 3D printed version of iconic Shelby Cobra unveiled at Detroit Auto Show - FEA.RU | CompMechLab

At the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) , held in Detroit from January 12 to 15, 2015, a replica of the 1964 sports car Shelby Cobra made using additive technologies was presented. The entire project, from concept to complete vehicle, took six weeks.

The "printed" version of the Shelby Cobra was a kind of gift for the 50th anniversary of this model. Photo: ornl.gov

Version Shelby Cobra created in the national laboratory of the US Department of Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) using industrial plant BAAM square" ) and Direct Digital Manufacturing ( Direct Digital Manufacturing ). On the system BAAM made of carbon fiber reinforced ABS plastic, the body, frame, passenger compartment and decorative elements of the car, including the radiator grill, were printed - a total of 230 kg of parts, while the total weight of the sports car is about 630 kg. Elements such as the engine, battery, tires, digital display in the cabin are made by the traditional method.

“Our goal is to demonstrate the potential of large-scale industrial additive manufacturing systems and prove their viability and effectiveness for the automotive industry.”0006 ORNL Lonnie Love (Lonnie Love).

According to Cincinnati Incorporated (USA), the BAAM system, which is a joint development of this company and the laboratory . 5 m) by layer-by-layer deposition at a speed 500-1000 times faster than conventional industrial 3D printers.

A built version of the Shelby Cobra is planned to be used as a lab on wheels. The vehicle is designed so that powertrains, fuel cells, electronics and a range of other systems can be connected in a plug-and-play mode, which will allow engineers to easily and quickly test new devices.

Project Shelby can be called a logical continuation of the concept Strati - an electric car developed by Local Motors (USA) in association with ORNL . The presentation of Strati took place in September 2014 in Chicago, at the auto show International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) . The electric car was created using the installation BAAM within five days of the showroom, for the first time most of the car was "grown" by a single element. On the last day of IMTS successfully completed the first run of Strati .

Another printed electric car - StreetScooter was presented at the end of November 2014 at the industrial exhibition EuroMold 2014 in Frankfurt. The exterior and interior of the machine were created on the production system of three-dimensional printing Objet1000 from the company Stratasys (USA) - more details in the material "EuroMold Exhibition 2014 in Frankfurt - Showcasing Achievements in Additive Manufacturing Technologies" .

The company EDAG (Germany) also plans to demonstrate the possibilities of additive manufacturing in the automotive industry. At the Geneva Motor Show in March 2015, EDAG is preparing to unveil the Light Cocoon (Cocoon of Light) sports car concept with a strong and lightweight 100% 3D printed body.

Company EDAG intends to demonstrate the ultra-light concept car Light Cocoon at the Geneva Motor Show. Photo: EDAG .de

Shelby Cobra

The original Shelby Cobra is built on the basis of successful AC Motors sports cars. American car designer Carroll Shelby, who received a license to import sports cars from this company in 1961, proposed replacing the original British Bristol engine with a Ford engine, and introduced the new car as the AC Cobra, later known as the Shelby or Shelby Cobra .

Years Shelby Cobra : 1962-1964
Engine: 7-liter. V8
Power: 410 HP
Maximum speed: 265 km/h
Weight: 1147 kg

Publication prepared by CompMechLab staff @ based on materials from ornl. gov, e-ci.com, edag.de, localmotors.com, gizmag.com, mashable.com.

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