Influence of strain path change on the rolling behavior of twin roll cast magnesium alloy

The effect of strain path change on the rolling behavior of twin roll cast (TRC) magnesium alloy AZ31 was investigated by subjecting the TRC material to hot unidirectional and cross rolling, respectively. In general, unidirectional rolling exhibited stronger texture intensities compared to cross rolling. Increasing the thickness reduction per rolling pass, i.e. reducing the total number of rolling passes, gave rise to weaker textures. For cross rolling, the texture intensity was independent of the strain amount per pass.