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

Abstract

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.