Hot Rectangular Extrusion Textures of Six Mg-Alloys Via Neutron Diffraction

Due to the high quality and statistics utilizing neutron diffraction for texture analyses, the crystallographic texture variation of six Mg-alloys is described in detail (AM20-AZ31-AZ61-AZ91-ZC71-WE43). More or less in all cases, the crystallographic texture is composed of some ideal texture components such as {0001} < 10-10 > and {10-10} < 11-20 > and fiber components such as < 0001 >//ND and < 10-10 >//ED. There is a dependency of the existence and texture sharpness of texture components with alloying elements such as the amount of Al. ZC71 is special with one dominating texture component {10-10} < 11-20 >. WE43 shows the split of the central pole in the basal pole figure but texture components are identical to other alloys without the tilt.