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Acta Metall Sin  2025, Vol. 61 Issue (6): 866-874    DOI: 10.11900/0412.1961.2024.00187
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Controlling the Texture of Mg-Al-Zn-Mn-Ca Magnesium Alloy by Hot Rolling-Shearing-Bending Process and Annealing
YOU Yunxiang1, TAN Li1,2(), GAO Jingjing1, ZHOU Tao1(), ZHOU Zhiming1
1 College of Materials Science and Engineering, Chongqing University of Technology, Chongqing 400054, China
2 Chongqing Yujiang Die-Casting Co. Ltd., Chongqing 400000, China
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YOU Yunxiang, TAN Li, GAO Jingjing, ZHOU Tao, ZHOU Zhiming. Controlling the Texture of Mg-Al-Zn-Mn-Ca Magnesium Alloy by Hot Rolling-Shearing-Bending Process and Annealing. Acta Metall Sin, 2025, 61(6): 866-874.

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Abstract  

The Mg-Al-Zn-Mn-Ca magnesium alloy, after hot rolling, forms an elliptical texture, providing good application prospects. However, challenges such as poor symmetry, similar to basal textures, persist in elliptical texture formation. This study explores optimizing the texture of Mg-2Al-02Zn-0.4Mn-0.5Ca Mg alloy sheets using a hot rolling-shearing-bending (HRSB) treatment to improve their room temperature mechanical properties. The research systematically investigates structural evolution during the annealing process and the mechanism behind nonbasal texture formation, using EBSD, XRD, and other characterization techniques. The results show that after annealing at temperatures above 350 oC following hot rolling, the sheets develop an elliptical texture extending toward the transverse direction (TD). Following HRSB treatment and annealing at 400 oC annealing, the {101¯2} extension twins generated during deformation remain uncrystallized, leading to an increase in the relatively symmetrical texture components between 20° and 70°. This also results in the formation of a ring texture. However, as the annealing temperature increases to 450 oC, the {101¯2} extension twins nearly disappear, precipitation phases increase, and the nucleation of randomly oriented grains during recrystallization causes the circular texture characteristics to disappear. During the HRSB deformation process, the pyramidal <c + a> slip becomes significantly activated, dominating the primary dislocation density. The low-energy grain boundaries caused by the co-segregation of Al and Ca atoms at the grain boundaries, as well as the orientation gradient induced by the non-basal slip, jointly contribute to the formation of the non-basal texture.

Key words:  Mg-Al-Zn-Mn-Ca magnesium alloy      non-basal texture      hot rolling      multi-scale characterization      structural evolution     
Received:  03 June 2024     
ZTFLH:  TG146.22  
Fund: National Natural Science Foundation of China(51901030);National Natural Science Foundation of China(52274374);Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing(cstc2020jcyj-msxmX0877);Science and Technology Research Program of Chongqing Municipal Education Commission(KJQN202201160);Cultivation Plan of Scientific Research and Innovation Team of Chongqing University of Technology(2023TDZ010);Postdoctoral Research Project of Chongqing Human Resources and Social Security Bureau(2022CQBSHTB3110)
Corresponding Authors:  TAN Li, associate professor, Tel: 13983472537, E-mail: tanli@cqut.edu.cn;
ZHOU Tao, professor, Tel: 18696698252, E-mail: zt19811118@cqut.edu.cn

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https://www.ams.org.cn/EN/10.11900/0412.1961.2024.00187     OR     https://www.ams.org.cn/EN/Y2025/V61/I6/866

Fig.1  Macroscopic photograph of the as-cast Mg-2Al-2Zn-0.4Mn-0.5Ca magnesium alloy sheets before hot rolling
Fig.2  Texture evolutions of hot-rolled (a) and as-annealed (b-d) Mg-2Al-2Zn-0.4Mn-0.5Ca magnesium alloy sheets (RD—rolling direction, TD—transverse direction)
(b) 350 oC for 1 h (c) 400 oC for 1 h (d) 450 oC for 1 h
Fig.3  Inverse pole figures (IPFs) (a, c) and pole figures (PFs) (b, d) of Mg-2Al-2Zn-0.4Mn-0.5Ca magnesium alloy sheets processed by hot rolling-shearing-bending (HRSB) at various annealing temperatures
(a, b) 400 oC for 1 h (c, d) 450 oC for 1 h
Fig.4  Grain orientation spread (GOS) maps of Mg-2Al-2Zn-0.4Mn-0.5Ca magnesium alloy sheets after processed by HRSB at various annealing temperatures (The blue areas represent recrystallized grains, the yellow areas represent subgrains, and the red areas represent deformed grains)
(a) 400 oC for 1 h (b) 450 oC for 1 h
Fig.5  Room temperature true stress-strain curves after tensile tests along RD and TD for Mg-2Al-2Zn-0.4Mn-0.5Ca magnesium alloy sheets with non-basal texture after HRSB treatment and annealing at 400 oC for 1 h
Loading direction

YS

MPa

UTS

MPa

FE

%

YS /

UTS

RD11223220.90.483
TD9520117.30.472
Table 1  Mechanical properties of samples after room temperature tensile tests
Fig.6  Room temperature true strain hardening curves after tensile tests along RD and TD for Mg-2Al-2Zn-0.4Mn-0.5Ca magnesium alloy sheets with non-basal texture after HRSB treatment and annealing at 400 oC for 1 h
Fig.7  Distribution of schmid factor (SF) in basal <a> slip (a) and prismatic <a> slip (b) systems of non-basal textured Mg-2Al-2Zn-0.4Mn-0.5Ca magnesium alloy sheet in different loading directions before uniaxial tension
Fig.8  EBSD image of the selected region in Fig.4a of Mg-2Al-2Zn-0.4Mn-0.5Ca magnesium alloy sheet annealed at 400 oC for 1 h (The grey cubes represent schematic illustration of the matrix and twin) (a) and the geometric relationship between twins and their corresponding matrix positions (The black and green dashed lines represent the majority of the matrix orientation distribution, and the red dashed line represents the orientation distribution of {101¯2} extension twins) (b)
Fig.9  Grain boundary map (a) and kernel average misorientation (KAM) map (b) of the selected region in Fig.8 (Red lines in Fig.9a represent {101¯2} extension twin boundaries, the deeper the green color in Fig.9b represents the higher the dislocation density)
Fig.10  Distributions of estimated geometrical necessary dislocation (GND) density for each slip system of non-basal textured Mg-2Al-2Zn-0.4Mn-0.5Ca magnesium alloy sheets annealed at different temperatures of the regions in Figs.4a and b
Fig.11  Rotation axis distribution maps of 8 special grain boundaries in Mg-2Al-2Zn-0.4Mn-0.5Ca magnesium alloy sheet processed by HRSB and annealed at 400 oC for 1 h (The red dashed lines represent the conventional low-energy grain boundaries that occur during the annealing process of hcp metals, while the black dashed lines represent the newly generated low-energy grain boundaries)
Fig.12  Texture component distributions of non-basal textured Mg-2Al-2Zn-0.4Mn-0.5Ca magnesium alloy sheets annealed at 400 oC (a-d) and 450 oC (e-h) for 1 h (Insets are corresponding (0002) pole figures)
(a, e) 0°-20° group (b, f) 45°-70° group (c, g) 20°-45° group (d, h) 70°-90° group
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