Donát Bánki Faculty

1 Introduction Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) is a conventional additive manufacturing (AM) technique to produce metallic components in which the metal powder is deposited layer upon layer along the building direction on the building platform. The building process is based on a digitally sliced model, which is transformed from a three-dimensional (3D) computer-aided design (CAD) model of the component [ 1 ].

Abstract The influence of crystal anisotropy on the micromechanical properties of ceramic grains plays an important role in the design of the macromechanical performance of bulk polycrystalline samples. To this end, the effect of crystal orientation on fracture toughness and strength was investigated by microcantilever bending experiments combined with Finite Element Method (FEM) simulations in grains of a polycrystalline ZrB2 sample.