Evolution of texture in pure magnesium during rolling

Abstract This work describes the development of texture in cast pure magnesium during unidirectional rolling, multi-step reverse rolling and multi-step cross rolling at different temperatures. The unidirectionally and the multi-step reverse hot-rolled plates exhibit mainly an asymmetric R-type texture with basal-pole split. Hot-rolled plates were also cold-rolled to a small reduction (10 %) by taking small strips of the RD-ND and TD-ND planes with two different initial textures. The shape and location of the main texture components in basal pole figures and ODF plots depend on the hot-rolling temperature and on the mode of rolling. The textures obtained in this study are compared with those of pure magnesium reported in literature.