Twinning-mediated texture weakening in a basal-textured Mg-6Al-1Zn (mass%) alloy sheet by a novel cold-sample rolling method

In this paper, we report the use of cold-sample rolling (CSR) processing, which induced a high fraction of double twins and a substantial texture-weakening effect in an Al-concentrated commercial Mg-6Al-1Zn (mass%) alloy sheet. A CSR-processed and subsequently annealed sheet showed a weak basal texture with a broad distribution of the (0001) poles toward the rolling and transverse directions. This led to moderate stretch formability with a limiting dome height of 5.5 mm. High-temperature rolling (HTR) processing has been reported to weaken the basal texture in Mg-Al-based alloy sheets because of the activation of non-basal <c+a> dislocations, resulting in texture weakening. However, the processing induced a relatively low fraction of double twins. Consequently, CSR processing led to a relatively high texture-weakening effect. The results showed that twinning-mediated static recrystallization is essential for texture weakening in Al-concentrated Mg-alloy sheets.